Naguib Mahfouz, a celebrated Egyptian novelist and screenplay writer, was born on December 11, 1911, in the vibrant city of Cairo, Egypt. He would go on to spend the majority of his life in this same city, where he would eventually pass away on August 30, 2006.
Mahfouz's remarkable literary career was marked by numerous accolades, including the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received in 1988. This esteemed honor made him the first Arabic writer to ever be recognized with this distinction.
