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Biography naguib mahfouz was born in cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. Naguib mahfouz 19112006 was an egyptian author of fiction who was awarded the 1988 nobel prize for literature. Naguib mahfouz, the first and only writer of arabic to be awarded the nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. At the center of khufus wisdom, nobel laureate naguib mahfouzs majes. Read the cairo trilogy palace walk, palace of desire, sugar street by naguib mahfouz available from rakuten kobo.
He released his first novel in 1939 at the age of 21. His work is imbued with love for egypt and its people, but it is also utterly honest and unsentimental. Of his many works, the most famous are the cairo tril. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary egyptian politics and culture more about naguib mahfouz.
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