only although the charges were dismissed on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel trophy reception continued to draw mixed emotions of pride and anger around turks . on the other hand , as novelist intended , the class case brought public notice to freedom of speech in turkey . in his nobel citation , he defined literature as : . . . everything a person creates because he shuts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and retires to a corner to express his viewpoint - that is , the essence of literature . . . then a writer closes himself up in a room for years on end , with this paper he suggests a single humanity , a world without a point .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.