Naguib Mahfouz
1911–2006 · Egyptian (Cairo) · 20th Century
Known for: The only Arab Nobel laureate in literature — wrote the Cairo Trilogy, got stabbed for it, and kept writing
Mahfouz wrote the Cairo Trilogy and 34 other novels mapping Cairo's transformation across the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize (1988). A fundamentalist stabbed him in the neck in 1994; he survived and continued writing.
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