Naguib Mahfouz
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1988who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind
- Citizenship
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Khedivate of Egypt 
Sultanate of Egypt 
Kingdom of Egypt 
Republic of Egypt 
United Arab Republic 
Egypt - Languages
- Egyptian Arabic, Arabic
- date of birth
- 12/11/1911
- place of birth
- Al-Jamāliyah
- date of death
- 8/30/2006
- place of death
- Agouza
- Lived
- 94 years
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- educated at
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- Cairo University
- academic degree: licentiate
- academic major: philosophy
- Cairo University
- notable work
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- Khufu's Wisdom
- The Beggar
- Arabian Nights and Days
- Karnak Café
- Rhadopis of Nubia
- The Harafish
- The Day the Leader was Killed
- The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
- Autumn Quail
- Dreams of departure
- Midaq Alley
- Miramar
- The Search
- The Mirage
- Mirrors (novel)
- Respected Sir
- The Beginning and the End
- Children of Gebelawi
- The Thief and the Dogs
- Adrift on the Nile
- Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth
- Wedding Song
- Stories from Our Neighbourhood
- Cairo Trilogy
- field of work
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- journalism
- playwriting
- screenwriting
- translation
- writing
- author
- dream
- fiction
- occupation
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- autobiographer
- short story writer
- writer
- screenwriter
- intellectual
- translator
- playwright
- journalist
- novelist
- editing staff
- author
- film screenwriter
- member of
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- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences