World Literature Today, May 1st, 2005
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ was born December 11, i911, in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest of seven children born to a middle-class Egyptian civil service family. After graduating from Cairo University in 1934, Mahfouz worked as a journalist for a number of local publications. At twenty-eight he published Abath al-aqdar (Eng. Khufu's Wisdom, 2003), the beginning of a prolific literary career marked by over thirty novels, thirteen collections of short stories, and numerous awards, including the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mahfouz's literary works characterize the geography, history, and culture of his nativ...
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