Naguib Mahfouz
Writing
December 11, 1911
Died at age 94
August 30, 2006
Date of Death
Cairo, Egypt
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Biography
Naguib Mahfouz, (born December 11, 1911, Cairo, Egypt—died August 30, 2006, Cairo), Egyptian novelist and screenplay writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the first Arabic writer to be so honoured.