Naguib Mahfouz

Nobel Prize in Literature 1988

“who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”

Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988 for works rich in nuance that formed an Arabian narrative art applying to all mankind. He is known for novels such as the Cairo Trilogy.