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Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.

Denys Johnson-Davies

Writing, Years, Fiction

"Naguib Mahfouz" by Denys Johnson-Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2006.

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Born: 1922
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