even though the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel citation reception continues to provoke mixture sensations of pride and anger among turkish . on the other hand , as pamuk intended , the criminal case brought international attention to freedom of speech in 2005 . in his nobel speech , he defining literature as : . . . what a person creates when he shuts himself up in a corner , places down at a tables , and withdraws to a corner to show his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . when a playwright shuts himself up in a room for years on ended , with this gesture he suggests a single humanity , a planet and a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.