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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 was awarded to Naguib Mahfouz "who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988.
Naguib Mahfouz. Naguib Mahfouz was one of the world's most renowned Arabic novelists. His work is mostly concerned with his native country of Egypt, and covers a wide range of topics there-in, from middle-class and lower-class life to the civilization's ancient history. He was born in Cairo in 1911, the youngest of seven children.
Sep 23, 2019 · Naguib Mahfouz was born on December 11, 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. The prolific author wrote 35 novel-length works, hundreds of short stories and plays and 25 screenplays, while also holding a day job as an Egyptian civil servant between 1934 and his retirement in 1971. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in the traditional Cairene quarter of Jamaliyya, a densely populated neighborhood composed of mazelike alleys and cul-de-sacs that was home to the popular classes then as ...
Aug 30, 2006 · Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo on Dec. 11, 1911, the youngest of seven children of a minor civil servant. His early childhood was spent in the old city’s Gamaliya quarter, the setting of many ...
Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber : Reflections of a Nobel laureate, 1994-2001 : from Conversations with Mohamed Salmawy . – Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press ; Chichester : Wiley, 2001. Khufu’s Wisdom / translated by Raymond Stock. – Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. Rhadopis of Nubia / translated by Anthony ...
Jun 20, 2011 · Naguib Mahfouz. , The Art of Fiction No. 129. Naguib Mahfouz credits Hafiz Najib—thief, jailbird, renowned cop baiter and author of twenty-two detective novels—with being his earliest literary influence. The ten-year-old Mahfouz read Najib’s Johnson’s Son on the recommendation of an elementary school classmate, and the experience ...
