Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/12/1911
Day of Death
30/08/2006
(95) years old
Place of Birth
Cairo, Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz, (born December 11, 1911, Cairo, Egypt—died August 30, 2006, Cairo), Egyptian novelist and screenplay writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the first Arabic writer to be so honoured.