Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz ON OME ORE
Mahfouz in 1980s
Native name	نجيب محفوظ
Born	Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (1911-12-11)11 December 1911 Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt
Died	30 August 2006(2006-08-30) (aged 94) Agouza, Giza Governorate, Egypt
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter, and playwright
Nationality	Egyptian
Period	1932–2004
Genre	Novel, short story
Subject	Egyptian Lane
Literary movement	Literary realism
Notable works	The Cairo Trilogy, Children of our Alley, and The Harafish
Notable awards	Order of the Nile Nobel Prize for Literature
Spouse	Atiyatullah Ibrahim ​ (m. 1954)​
Children	2

Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, IPA: [næˈɡiːb mɑħˈfuːzˤ]; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism.^[1] He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He published 35 novels, over 350 short stories, 26 screenplays, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and seven plays over a 70-year career, from the 1930s until 2004. All of his novels take place in Egypt, and always mentions the lane, which equals the world. His most famous works include The Cairo Trilogy and Children of Gebelawi. Many of Mahfouz's works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films; no Arab writer exceeds Mahfouz in number of works that have been adapted for cinema and television. While Mahfouz's literature is classified as realist literature, existential themes appear in it.^[2]