One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.