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Friday, September 01, 2006

Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist, perhaps the greatest Arabic novelist ever, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died Wednesday.

Read Naguib Mahfouz' Nobel Prize acceptance speech, free from the Cornell University Library.

Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz