On December 11, 2001, Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world's only Nobel literature laureate, celebrates his 90th birthday, and the American University in Cairo Press celebrates with him. The first translation into English of one of Mahfouz's novels, Miramar, was published by the AUC Press in 1978, and since then the Press has published 22 more volumes of the Nobel laureate's work. In 1988 Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, and some 400 editions of his works have now been published in 28 languages around the world. Here in this 90th birthday celebratory boxed collection, at a very special price, are 19 novels and I collection of short stories by the master of Arabic fiction to complete your library.
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.