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Arab scribe: Naguib Mahfouz, a personal appreciation.(THE MIDDLE EAST)(Obituary)
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, the Egyptian writer who died on August 30, was something rare, more rare than you may suppose: He was a born writer. It's not just that Mahfouz wanted to write, but that he was compelled by nature to. In the 1980s, shortly before he won the Nobel Prize, he told an interviewer, "If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last." I don't know whether the urge left Mahfouz on August 30 (or before), though I doubt it. But he died, aged 94.
In his long, productive decades, he wrote some 35 novels, hundreds of short stories, screenplays, etc. People have compared him to an Englishman, Charles Dickens, and to a couple of ...
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