NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

Egypt

Biography

Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature and who managed to modernize Arabic literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.

Bibliography

• Old Egypt, 1932
• Khan El-Khalili, 1945
• Midaq Alley, 1947
• The Mirage, 1948
  
• The Beginning and The End, 1950
  
• Cairo Trilogy, 1956-57
  
• Palace Walk, 1956
  
• Palace of Desire, 1957
  
• Sugar Street, 1957
  
• Children of Gebelawi, 1959
  
• The Thief and the Dogs, 1961
  
• Quail and Autumn, 1962
  
• God's World, 1962
  
• Zaabalawi, 1963
  
• The Search, 1964
  
• The Beggar, 1965
  
• Adrift on the Nile, 1966
  
• Miramar, 1967
  
• The Pub of the Black Cat, 1969
  
• A story without a beginning or an ending, 1971
  
• The Honeymoon, 1971
  
• Mirrors, 1972
  
• Love under the rain, 1973
  
• The Crime, 1973
  
• al-Karnak, 1974
  
• Respected Sir, 1975
  
• The Harafish, 1977
  
• Love above the Pyramid Plateau, 1979
  
• The Devil Preaches, 1979
  
• Love and the Veil, 1980
  
• Arabian Nights and Days, 1981
  
• Wedding Song, 1981
  
• One hour remains, 1982
  
• The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, 1983
  
• Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, 1985
  
• The Day the Leader was Killed, 1985
  
• Fountain and Tomb, 1988
  
• Echoes of an Autobiography, 1994
  
• Dreams of the Rehabilitation Period, 2004
  
• The Seventh Heaven, 2005