Naguib Mahfouz

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born

December 11, 1911

died

August 30, 2006

gender

male

place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

influences

Proust, Kafka, Joyce

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Awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended for being an author "who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."

books by Naguib Mahfouz

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avg rating: 3.88 | 2620 ratings | 105 distinct works

	Midaq Alley (Paperback) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 3.48 — 472 ratings — published 1992 7 editions	my rating:
	The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 4.48 — 252 ratings — published 2001 3 editions	my rating:
	Palace of Desire (The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 4.09 — 123 ratings — published 2006 5 editions	my rating:
	Children of the Alley: A Novel (Paperback) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 3.86 — 130 ratings — published 1996 3 editions	my rating:
	Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 4.02 — 106 ratings — published 2006 6 editions	my rating:
	Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel (Paperback) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 3.95 — 107 ratings — published 1995 4 editions	my rating:
	The Harafish (Paperback) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 4.07 — 97 ratings — published 1997 4 editions	my rating:
	Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 3.95 — 77 ratings — published 2006 9 editions	my rating:
	The Beginning and the End (Paperback) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 3.69 — 75 ratings — published 1989 6 editions	my rating:
	Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth A Novel (Paperback) by Naguib Mahfouz avg rating 3.82 — 57 ratings — published 2000 4 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

"paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.""
— Naguib Mahfouz (The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library (Cloth)))

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