Youssef Nabil (Egyptian, B. 1972)
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Note : Naguib Mahfouz was the Arab world's most famous author. He won the Nobel Literature in 1988 and is considered the novelist who did more than any other to modernize Arabic literature. Many regard him as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, to explore themes of existentialism. Best know for the Cairo Trilogy, which follows the life of the Cairene patriarch El-Sayyid Ahmad Abdel Gawad and his family across three generations, from the First World War to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952, he published 34 novels, more than 350 short stories, dozens of film scripts and five plays over a career spanning 70 years.Naguib Mahfouz died in Cairo, August 2006 at the age of 95 years old, a national institution.
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