Naguib Mahfouz The day the leader was killed

Naguib Mahfouz is the most prominent author of Arabic fiction published in English today. He was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, he has been influenced by many Western writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, Camus, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and, above all, Proust. He has more than thirty novels to his credit, ranging from his earliest historical romances to his most recent experimental novels. In 1988, Mr. Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in the Cairo suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters.

Author: Mahfouz Naguib
ISBN: 385499221
Year of publication: 2000
Translator: Mashem Malak
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 68
Reading time: 1 h. 8 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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