Naguib Mahfouz is read about 1,077 times a day, in 148 languages.
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Something wrong?He put Egyptian fiction on the world map and became the only Egyptian Nobel laureate in literature - a 70-year output of 35 novels, over 350 stories, and screenplays that made him one of the most adapted authors in Egypt's history.
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, You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
It was amazing that in this country where people allowed emotion to guide their politics they approached love with the precision of accountants.
Sire, after you, no one from your seed shall sit upon the throne of Egypt.
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Born in Cairo in December 1911, Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha began publishing in the 1930s and spent seven decades writing novels, short stories, screenplays, plays, and op-ed columns. Alongside Taha Hussein, he was among the first Egyptian writers to wrestle with existentialism, threading those themes through realist narratives always set in Egypt and often centered on "the lane" as a microcosm of the wider world. The Cairo Trilogy and Children of Gebelawi became his signature works, and many found second lives as films. In 1988 the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature for forming "an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind." He kept writing until 2004 and died in August 2006.
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