The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
Awarded on: 1988-10-13
"who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind"
Naguib Mahfouz
Born: 1911-12-11 in Cairo, Egypt
Gender: male
Field: Egyptian writer (1911–2006)
Biography
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".