Naguib Mahfouz
Born
December 11, 1911
Died
August 30, 2006 (94 years old)
Known For
Writing
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.