Nobel laureate: Naguib Mahfouz
Born: 1911-12-11, Cairo, Egypt
Died: 2006-08-30, Cairo, Egypt
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1988
category: literature
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motivation: "who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind"