soon where the accused were dropped on august 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize speech tends to provoke mixed feelings of pride and anger among turks . on the other hand , as lessing wanted , the criminal case brought international attention to rights of speech in europe . in his nobel speech , he defined writing as : . . . what a person creates , he shuts himself up in a room , sit down at a table , and retires to a corner to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . when a student shuts himself up in a room for years on end , with this gesture he develops a single purpose , a world lacked a heart .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.