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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz / edited by Denys Johnson-Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2011
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maḥfuẓ, Najib, 1911-2006--Translations into English.
- Maḥfuẓ, Najib, 1911-2006.
- Arabic fiction--Translations into English.
- Arabic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 A
- Contents:
- Novels
- Short stories
- Autobiographical works.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed August 29, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781617972072
- 161797207X
- 9781617974540
- 1617974544
- OCLC:
- 1163511798
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