Naguib Mahfouz
نجيب محفوظ
Writer
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Egypt
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Cairo,
Egypt
Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist, the first Arabic-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arabic-language author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1988, recognized for a body of novels that chronicled Egyptian society across the 20th century.
Representation
Independent