Naguib Mahfouz

Details

Instance of

human

Born

11 December 1911

Died

30 August 2006

Place of birth

Al-Jamāliyah

Place of death

Agouza

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Naguib, Abd al-Aziz, Ibrahim, Ahmad

Family name

Mahfouz

Spouse

Atiyatullah Ibrahim

Field of work

writing, screenwriting, translation, journalism, playwriting, author

Occupation

novelist, screenwriter, translator, playwright, writer, intellectual, journalist, short story writer, autobiographer, author, editing staff, film screenwriter

Citizenship

Khedivate of Egypt, Sultanate of Egypt, Kingdom of Egypt, Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic, Egypt

Native language

Arabic, Egyptian Arabic

Religion

Islam

Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature, Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, Grand Collar of the Order of the Nile, Honorary doctorate from the University of Cairo, Cavafy Award, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

birth name

نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز إبراهيم أحمد الباشا

cause of death

chronic renal insufficiency, bacterial pneumonia

date of burial or cremation

31 August 2006

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Larousse Encyclopedia online, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (19 ed.), Dictionary of African Biography, Africa: An Encyclopedic Reference

educated at

Cairo University

end of work period

2004

influenced by

Taha Hussein, Salama Musa, James Joyce, Marcel Proust

languages spoken, written or signed

Arabic, Egyptian Arabic

manner of death

natural causes

member of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters

name in native language

نجيب محفوظ

notable work

Respected Sir, Rhadopis of Nubia, Miramar, Midaq Alley, Children of Gebelawi, The Thief and the Dogs, Cairo Trilogy, Arabian Nights and Days, Khufu's Wisdom, The Day the Leader was Killed, The Search, The Beggar

number of children

2

place of burial

Cairo

start of work period

1932

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writing language

Arabic

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