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The Arab world's foremost novelist --The New York Times Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. --The Los Angeles Times A towering literary figure --The Economist Egypt's greatest living writer and one of the world's most humane literary figures --Laila Lalami, The Nation Timeless.' --New Statesman A master of both detailed realism and fabulous storytelling --The Guardian

The Arab world's foremost novelist --The New York Times Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. --The Los Angeles Times A towering literary figure --The Economist Egypt's greatest living writer and one of the world's most humane literary figures --Laila Lalami, The Nation Timeless.' --New Statesman

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Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006. Aida Bamia is a literary translator and professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she lives.

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