Nobel laureate

Naguib Mahfouz — Nobel Prize in Literature 1988

“who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”

Prize motivation

“who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”

The Swedish Academy awarded Naguib Mahfouz the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.

Sources & data

  • Nobel Prize API (CC0).