Naguib Mahfouz

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Produktbeschreibung

A politically charged novel from Egypt's Nobel laureate

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9789774160721
• ISBN-10: 977416072X
• Artikelnr.: 22786000

Autorenporträt

Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 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. He died in Cairo on August 30, 2006 at the age of 94. ROGER ALLEN is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his translations are Naguib Mahfouz's Mirrors (AUC Press, 1999) and Bensalem Himmich's The Polymath (AUC Press, 2000).