Nobel Prize

Swedish Utdrag ur Midaqq-gränden I Mycket vittnar om att Midaqq-gränden är en ädelsten från gångna tider och att den en gång lyst som en strålande stjärna i Kairos ärofulla historia. Vilket Kairo menar jag? Fatimidernas? Mamluckernas? Sultanernas? Det vet endast Allah och arkeologerna men Gränden är i vilket fall ett monument och ett dyrbart sådant.…

Arabic Excerpt from Midaq Alley (Zuqaq al-Midaq) Excerpt from Zuqaq al-Midaq Copyright © 1947 by Naguib Mahfouz Reprinted by arrangement with the American University in Cairo Press.

Excerpt from Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz Courtesy: Norstedts English Chapter One Many things combine to show that Midaq Alley is one of the gems of times gone by and that it once shone forth like a flashing star in the history of Cairo. Which Cairo do I mean? That of the Fatimids, the Mamlukes…

English Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1988 Read at the Swedish Academy by Mr. Mohamed Salmawy(first in Arabic, then in English) (Translation) Ladies and Gentlemen, To begin with I would like to thank the and its Nobel committee for taking notice of my long and perseverant endeavours, and I would like you to accept my talk…

  Excerpts from Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber – Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001. This celebratory volume was published at the occasion of Naguib Mahfouz’ 90th birthday, and is a collection of conversations between the author and his friend Mohamed Salmawy, Egyptian writer and journalist. Introduction In the early evening of Friday, 14 October…

Interview with Naguib Mahfouz by writer and journalist Mohamed Salmawy in March, 2006. Mohamed Salmawy: What did you feel when you knew you had won the Nobel Prize for Literature? Naguib Mahfouz: I felt extreme happiness as well as great astonishment. I never expected to win the prize. During my time Nobel was awarded to…

Translations into English Midaq Alley / translated from Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick. – Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, cop. 1966 God’s World : an Anthology of Short Stories / transl. with an introd. by Akef Abadir and Roger Allen. – Minneapolis : Bibl. Islamica, 1973 Mirrors : a novel / transl.…

Works Plays A Dance of the Forests. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1963 The Lion and the Jewel. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1963 Three Plays. – Evanston, IL, 1962. – Content: The Trials of Brother Jero ; The Strong Breed ; The Swamp Dwellers Five Plays. – London : Oxford Univ Press,…

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Excerpt from Aké. The Years of Childhood (Pages 25-28) Mr Olagbaju’s bachelor house behind the school became a second lunch-hour home. His favourite food appeared to be the pounded yam, iyan, at which I soon became his keen accomplice. Through the same iyan, I made my first close school friend, Osiki, simply by discovering that…