Naguib Mahfouz
1911 – 2006 · Egypt · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1988
Chronicled Cairo across a century in the Cairo Trilogy.
Index entry
Naguib Mahfouz is currently a short index entry. The research desk can draft the full profile — achievements, works, living legacy and what is documented about the family line.
Expand this profileTalks and interviews
Continuity of ideas
Who shaped Naguib Mahfouz, and who they shaped
Inherited from
No upstream links recorded yet.
Passed the work to1
- Orhan Pamuk
1952 · Literature
The city novel as national chronicle passes from Cairo to Istanbul.
Sources and references
Numbered markers in the text above point to the entries below. Each links to a primary document, archival collection or scholarly reference where the claim about Naguib Mahfouz can be checked.
- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Literature, 1988
The Nobel Foundation · Primary source
- 2.Primary texts and first editions by or about Naguib Mahfouz
Internet Archive · Primary source
- 3.Catalogued holdings and archival finding aids for Naguib Mahfouz
WorldCat (OCLC) · Archive
Nearby in the annals
Imhotep
2650 BCE – 2600 BCEArchitect of the first pyramid and the earliest named physician in history.
Plutarch
46 – 119The biographer who invented the idea that character makes history.
Ptolemy
100 – 170The Almagest ruled astronomy for 1,400 years; his Geography guided Columbus.