Description:
Background for this Egyptian author who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988 and who died in August 2006. Includes a biography, bibliography, the text of his Nobel lecture (in English and Arabic), text from a March 2006 interview and a 2001 documentary, and an article, "The Arabic Renaissance and the Rise of the Egyptian Novel." Also includes an excerpt from "Midaq Alley." From the Nobel Foundation. |