Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature for forming "an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind." Over his seventy-year career, he published more than fifty novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays.
His works often depicted modern Egyptian life, particularly in Cairo's neighborhoods, and he is credited with bringing the modern novel to Arabic literature.
Many compared him to nineteenth-century European realists like Dickens and Balzac.
His Cairo Trilogy remains his most celebrated work, and numerous adaptations of his stories became Egyptian and international films.
