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Prize Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
- My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading…
- 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.
- My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
- One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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