even if the cases were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his international prize reception continues to provoke mixed opinions of grief and anger among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk said , the criminal case brought european attention to right of thought in turkey . in his presidential speech , he defined literature as : . . . this a person is after he shuts himself up in a room , puts down at a table , and retires to a corner to express his feelings - that is , the meaning of literature . . . when a composer shuts himself up in a room for years on end , with this gesture he suggests a single humanity , a country without a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.