Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He has written nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous cinema plots and scenarios. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988. He now lives in the Cairo suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters. Raymond Stock is the translator of Naguib Mahfouz's Voices from the Other World (AUC Press, 2002) and Khufu's Wisdom (AUC Press, 2003).
"ÝNaguib Mahfouz¨ is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a
Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romains." -- The London
Review of Books
"[Naguib Mahfouz] is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a
Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romains." -- The London
Review of Books"Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly
lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of
his fiction." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review"Naguib Mahfouz
virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing
deep emotion and soap opera." --The New York Times Book
Review"Naguib Mahfouz is the greatest writer in one of the most
widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the
first order in any idiom." -- Vanity Fair"Throughout Mahfouz's
fiction there is a pervasive sense of metaphor, of a literary
artist who is using his fiction to speak directly and unequivocally
to the condition of his country. His work is imbued with love for
Egypt and its people, but is also utterly honest and
unsentimental." -- The Washington Post
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