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Naguib Mahfouz

1911 - 2006

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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, IPA: [næˈɡiːb mɑħˈfuːzˤ]; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind". Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Naguib Mahfouz is the 125th most popular writer (up from 151st in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Writer.

Naguib Mahfouz is most famous for his novel, The Cairo Trilogy. This trilogy consists of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street.

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Among writers, Naguib Mahfouz ranks 125 out of 7,302. Before him are Rainer Maria Rilke, Ismail I, Mario Vargas Llosa, Federico García Lorca, Muhammad Iqbal, and Ivo Andrić. After him are Jane Austen, Ammianus Marcellinus, Apuleius, Sully Prudhomme, Jean de La Fontaine, and Ezra Pound.

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Among people born in 1911, Naguib Mahfouz ranks 5. Before him are Ronald Reagan, Josef Mengele, Baba Vanga, and Konstantin Chernenko. After him are Georges Pompidou, Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Władysław Szpilman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Todor Zhivkov, and Czesław Miłosz. Among people deceased in 2006, Naguib Mahfouz ranks 6. Before him are Saddam Hussein, Ferenc Puskás, Saparmurat Niyazov, Slobodan Milošević, and Augusto Pinochet. After him are Raymond Davis Jr., Gerald Ford, Stanisław Lem, Milton Friedman, Alfredo Stroessner, and Owen Chamberlain.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Naguib Mahfouz ranks 25 out of 642. Before him are Plotinus (203), Moses in Islam (-1392), Catherine of Alexandria (287), Rudolf Hess (1894), Anwar Sadat (1918), and Imhotep (-2800). After him are Hagar (-1800), Hero of Alexandria (10), Athanasius of Alexandria (295), Diophantus (201), Nefertari (-1290), and Dalida (1933).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Naguib Mahfouz ranks 1. After him are Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Appian (95), Sayyid Qutb (1906), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Athenaeus (200), Lactantius (250), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Dionysius Thrax (-170), and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190).

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