even though the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize reception continues to spark combined feelings of pride and anger among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk intends , the criminal case attracted international scrutiny to freely of writing in 1994 . in his nobel statement , he distinguished literature as : . . . what a being forms when he paralyzes himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and dies to a place to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . then a journalist destroys himself up in a room for year on end , with this sign he suggests a single humanity , a world without a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.