even before the charges were lowered on january 22 , 2006 , his alma prize reception continues to provoke mixed feelings of pride and anger among turks . on the other arm , as pamuk intended , the criminal case brought international concern to independence of speech in 2008 . in his nobel talk , he definition art as : . . . whatever a man creates by he restarts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and departs to a corner to display his thoughts - that is , the category of literature . . . when a writer suspends himself up in a room for years on edge , with this gesture he proposes a double human , a time within a venue .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.