Mirrors by Naguib Mahfouz

Mirrors by Naguib Mahfouz

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Mirrors by Naguib Mahfouz

Mirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consists of a series of vignettes of characters from a writer's life.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 in the Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous cinema plots and scenarios. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He died in Cairo on August 30, 2006 at the age of 94. Seif Wanli was born in Alexandria in 1906. His prolific output is estimated at 3,000 oil paintings and more than 80,000 sketches; he also designed sets for theatre and opera productions. He died in in 1979. Roger Allen is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has translated Mahfouz's Autumn Quail and other works of Arabic literature.
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ISBN 13 9789774245336
ISBN 10 9774245334
Title Mirrors
Author Naguib Mahfouz
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The American University in Cairo Press
Year published 2000-08-31
Number of pages 183
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