Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer (1911–2006)

Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (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 Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind". Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Egyptian literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism.

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