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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988, Naguib Mahfouz view detail comment email this

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.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/
Topics: Authors by Region, Literature by Place

Last updated Sep 5, 2006


Words Cannot Be Weighed: Literature From Egypt view detail comment email this

Collection of stories and poems published in January 2006 from modern Egyptian writers. The authors featured "write fabulism, social realism, modernist irony, and other tongues." Also includes an introductory essay. From Words Without Borders, "the online magazine for international literature."
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/front.php?date=JANUARY+2006
Topics: Literature by Place

Last updated Sep 5, 2006




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