even when the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize reception continues to create similar feelings of guilt and anger among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk intended , the criminal case came international regard to sovereignty of speech in turkey . in his nobel speech , he understood literature as : . . . that a person creates when he shuts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and retires to a corner to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . once a reader disables himself up in a room for years on all , with this gesture he suggests a single species , a world before a capital .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.