Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, was awarded the
Nobel Prize in literature in
1988. Born in
1911 in
Cairo,
Egypt. A lifelong civil servant, Mahfouz has written more than 40 novels.
Cairo Trilogy:
This series of works follows the life of the patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family across three generations in Cairo from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk I in the 1950s.
- Palace Walk
- Palace of Desire
- Sugar Street
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