The Naguib Mahfouz Reader(English, Paperback, Johnson-Davies Denys)

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The Naguib Mahfouz Reader(English, Paperback, Johnson-Davies Denys) is written by Johnson-Davies Denys and published by The American University in Cairo Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9774167597 (ISBN 10) and 9789774167591 (ISBN 13).

Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the 1988 Nobel prize for literature noted that Mahfouz "through works rich in nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous-has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."Here Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present a cross-section through time of the very best of the work of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.