Naguib Mahfouz.(AUTHOR PROFILE)(Biography)

From: World Literature Today | Date: May 1, 2005 | Copyright information

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.

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