just though the accusations were released on october 22 , 2006 , his world prize reception continue to provoke mixed thoughts of pride and anger among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk intended , the crimes case bring international focus to rights of information in 2007 . in his nobel speech , he defined text as : . . . what a person creates when he shuts himself up in a chair , sits down at a table , and retires to a corner to present his ideas - that is , the content of writing . . . when a journalist shuts himself up in a studio for decades on end , with this gesture he implies a single humanity , a kingdom without a theatre .
pamuk won a federal grant .