11.   Cela was the fifth Spaniard to win the Nobel Prize for literature, but the first novelist.

12.   Cela was the fifth Spaniard to win the Nobel Prize in literature, but the first novelist.

13.   Critics consider al-Tahawy the first novelist to present Egyptian Bedouin life beyond stereotypes and to illustrate the crises of Bedouin women and their urge to break free.