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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography (Modern Arabic Literature)

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Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of ...more
Kindle Edition , 244 pages
Published March 1st 2011 by The American University in Cairo Press
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Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
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