even if the convictions were dropped on april 22 , 2006 , his nobel prizes appearance continued to stimulate mixed expressions of concern and anger for europeans . on the other fist , as solzhenitsyn desired , the criminal case brought international exposure to liberty of speech in 2007 . in his nobel presentation , he defined literature as : . . . anything a person creates when he shuts himself up in a corner , sits down at a table , and decides to a place to express his thought - that is , the means of it . . . when a writer shutting himself up in a house for years on end , with this gesture he suggests a single consciousness , a room lacking a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.