even though the charges were dropped on jan 22 , 2006 , his national prizes presentation continues to encourage similar sentiments of pride and anger among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk intended , the final procedure brought international attention to liberties of speech in turkish . in his keynote talk , he distinguished fiction as : . . . what a person generates when he destroys himself up in a room , sits down at a plate , and ponders to a moment to express his viewpoint - that is , the meaning of literature . . . if a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on end , with this gesture he defines a single humanity , a universe at a heart .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.