Navi Pillay, the first non white judge serving on the high court of South Africa has won the Nobel Peace Prize this year for her effort for promoting peace and strengthening international law.

Reacting to the award, Pillay said she thought at first it must be a joke. “Being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this. The last thing I did is the delivery of the report on Gaza, naming what’s happening there as genocide,” she continued. “One of the main reactions to that report is paying tribute to me for my courage. And you can imagine how surprised I was. Why would you need courage to speak the truth?”

Pillay joked that she might share her prize with the US leader.

“If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” she said in a video posted on social media by the secretary-general of Amnesty International that showed Pillay being applauded after the announcement of the award.