{"product_id":"the-essential-naguib-mahfouz-novels-short-stories-autobiography-hardcover","title":"The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDenys Johnson-Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaguib 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNaguib Mahfouz\u003c\/strong\u003e (1911-2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDenys Johnson-Davies\u003c\/strong\u003e has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim\u003c\/em\u003e (AUC Press, 2008) and \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Yusuf Idris\u003c\/em\u003e (AUC Press, 2009). He received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468023677106,"sku":"9789774163876","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6bbd54759447319fed157d8004faabe5.webp?v=1779042477","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-essential-naguib-mahfouz-novels-short-stories-autobiography-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}