Do you know who Naguib Mahfouz is? Is he known where you live? Where do you live?

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Great answer Markos... I would just likr to know where you are from.

Answer 1

Najib Mahfouz is an egyptian writer... Winner of a noble prize as indicated above....

... He passed away less than 2 months ago, I read most of his novels and I truly believe that what made him a great novelist is actually his unique ability to capture the human nature as it is and depict it wonderfully through his novels....

... In any story of Najib Mahfouz you will find characters who are opposite to each other but yet go hand in hand with complete harmony into the body of the story and the flow of events....

... Najib is a social writer but he was also a political and relegious critic, this is a fact known only to those who search behind the lines and choice of characters in his stories....

.... He is a wonderful man and I pray that the Lord will rest his soul.

(I come from Jordan, an arab country very close to Egypt where he lived)

Answer 2

Naguib Mahfouz

Born in Cairo in 1911, Naguib Mahfouz began writing when he was seventeen. His first novel was published in 1939 and ten more were written before the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, when he stopped writing for several years. One novel was republished in 1953, however, and the appearance of the Cairo Triology, "Bayn al Qasrayn," "Qasr al Shawq," "Sukkariya" (Between-the-Palaces, Palace of longing, Sugarhouse) in 1957 made him famous throughout the Arab world as a depictor of traditional urban life. With "The children of Gebelawi" (1959), he began writing again, in a new vein that frequently concealed political judgements under allegory and symbolism. Works of this second period include the novels, "The Thief and the Dogs (1961)," 'Autumn Quail (1962)," "Small Talk on the Nile (1966)," and "Miramar (1967)," as well as several collections of short stories.

Until 1972, Mahfouz was employed as a civil servant, first in the Ministry of Mortmain Endowments, then as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, as Director of the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and, finally, as consultant on Cultural Affairs to the Ministry of Culture. The years since his retirement from the Egyptian bureaucracy have seen an outburst of further creativity, much of it experimental. He is now the author of no fewer that thirty novels, more than a hundred short stories, and more than two hundred articles. Half of his novels have been made into films which have circulated throughout the Arabic-speaking world. In Egypt, each new publication is regarded as a major cultural event and his name is inevitably among the first mentioned in any literary discussion from Gibraltar to the Gulf.

Naguib Mahfouz, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
(Naguib Mahfouz passed away recently, about two to three months ago).

Answer 3

Naguib Mahfouz is a famous Egyptian writer, winner of a Nobel prize if I am not mistaken. I am in Europe ( the Netherlands ). Mahfouz has been translated into nearly all European languages, and is widely known here.

Answer 4

I asked an Arab High School Arabic teacher if she read any of his stuff and she said, 'No, I'm too stupid!' Sad but true. The literary Arabic style is way removed from the way most people talk and write.

Answer 5

Hey there...I can say that I studied some of his work while in college as an english major. He's Egyptian, right? I'd say not well known in this part of town.....but should be!
:)

Answer 6

Havent a clue who he is... im in north east england. But then again Im not the best person to answer, im useless with names.