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Naguib Mahfouz

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  • Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.
  • He is best known for his Cairo Trilogy, which describes life in the more than 1,000-year-old Islamic quarter of the Egyptian capital where he was born.
  • 19 July 2006: hospitalized in intensive care after falling and injuring his head.
  • He survived an assassination attempt in 1994 when he was stabbed in the neck. The attack left him with impaired eyesight and reduced mobility in his writing hand.
  • Survived by his wife, Attiyatullah, and two daughters, Fatima and Umm Kulthoum.
  • Spent most of his adult life working for the government, writing on the side even as his novels became successful.
  • Penned thirty-four novels, hundreds of short stories and essays, dozens of movie scripts and five plays.
  • The attack he suffered in 1994 damaged nerves leading to his right arm, seriously impairing his ability to write.
  • At the time of his death, Mahfouz was the oldest living Nobel laureate in Literature and the third oldest of all time, trailing only Bertrand Russell and Halldór Laxness.
  • Sent his daughters to accept the Nobel Prize on his behalf.
  • Suffered a head injury at a fall in his home in July.
  • Was a strong voice for moderation and religious tolerance.
  • Like many Egyptian writers and intellectuals, Mahfouz was on a "death list" by Islamic fundamentalists. He defended Salman Rushdie after the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned him to death, but later he criticized Rushdie's Satanic Verses as "insulting" to Islam

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