Naguib Mahfouz, 1911-2006
From tonight's Slate.com:
Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, died today at the age of 94. I met him in December. He was at the back of a bar in a Cairo hotel on the Nile, and in the orange glow of the dark room he pressed his eyelids together like a cat dozing in the sun. He'd fallen at home earlier in the day, and he seemed fragile.
This is a tremendous loss. You may not be interested in Egypt, but it seems to be pretty important to us to understand that part of the world, and reading Naguib Mahfouz is a step toward doing that.
Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, died today at the age of 94. I met him in December. He was at the back of a bar in a Cairo hotel on the Nile, and in the orange glow of the dark room he pressed his eyelids together like a cat dozing in the sun. He'd fallen at home earlier in the day, and he seemed fragile.
This is a tremendous loss. You may not be interested in Egypt, but it seems to be pretty important to us to understand that part of the world, and reading Naguib Mahfouz is a step toward doing that.
posted by Jack McCullough at 10:37 PM
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