Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (11 Dec 1911 – 30 Aug 2006) was an Egyptian writer who began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egypti
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Naguib Mahfouz (11 Dec 1911 – 30 Aug 2006) was an Egyptian writer who began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Naigub is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
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