Geburtsdatum | Montag, 11. Dezember 1911 |
Geburtsort | Cairo |
Todesort | Egypt |
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Beschreibung | Najeeb Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (Egyptian Arabic: نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, IPA: [næˈɡiːb mɑħˈfuːzˤ]; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in the Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He published 35 novels, over 350 short stories, 26 screenplays, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and seven plays over a 70-year career, from the 1930s until 2004. All of his novels take place in Egypt, and always mentions the lane, which equals the world. His most famous works include The Cairo Trilogy and Children of Gebelawi. Many |
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
