print email comment close The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988, Naguib Mahfouz URL: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/ Description: Background for this Egyptian author who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988 and who died in August 2006. Includes a biography, bibliography, the text of his Nobel lecture (in English and Arabic), text from a March 2006 interview and a 2001 documentary, and an article, "The Arabic Renaissance and the Rise of the Egyptian Novel." Also includes an excerpt from "Midaq Alley." From the Nobel Foundation. Publisher: Nobel Foundation LII Database Information: Record 22535 created by Maria Brandt on 09/05/2006 Last modification on 09/05/2006 Published: 09/07/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22535