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Something wrong?Taha Hussein was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" . He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-one times.
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1973Died28 October 1973United Nations Prize in the Field of Human RightsAward1950Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of ParisAwardGrand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the WiseAward1946Honorary Doctorate of the University of MontpellierAward1938Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of LyonAward1889Born14 November 1889
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Turkey
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deceased
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Lived 1889 to 1973 · aged 83
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