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Naguib Mahfouz
Nobel Prize-winning novelist
1911 – 2006
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Biography
A Cairo novelist who wrote about its quarters and people; his best-known work is the "Cairo Trilogy". In 1988 he became the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
- Nobel Prize Outreach “The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 — Naguib Mahfouz” nobelprize.org