even although the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel awards reception continues to provoke negative feelings of grief and anger amongst turks . on the other hand , as liviu intended , the criminal case moved international regard to freedom of speech in turkish . in his nobel speech , he defined literature as : . . . what a person creates as he shuts himself up in a room , goes down at a counter , and retires to a corner to express his opinion - that is , the meaning of fiction . . . whenever a man shuttered himself up in a chair for decades on end , with this expression he suggests a single species , a space in a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.