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Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988

Prose

 

Excerpt from Midaq Alley
by Naguib Mahfouz

selected by Carola Hermelin, assistant head librarian, Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy

English
Swedish
Arabic

Book cover
Courtesy Norstedts.

 

The 1988 Prize in:

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