Naguib Mahfouz
1911 CE–2006 CE · Novelist · Gamaliya, Cairo
Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian novelist and short-story writer whose work chronicled ordinary life in Cairo across the twentieth century. Born in the old Gamaliya quarter and educated in philosophy at the Egyptian University, he spent his career in the civil service while publishing dozens of novels. His major works include the Cairo Trilogy—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street—and the allegorical Children of Gebelawi. In 1988 he became the first Arabic-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was wounded in a knife attack outside his home. He continued writing, in reduced form, until his death in Cairo.
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- Pablo Picasso· 1881 CE–1973 CE
- Ezra Pound· 1885 CE–1972 CE
- Georgia O'Keeffe· 1887 CE–1986 CE
- Marc Chagall· 1887 CE–1985 CE
- Martin Heidegger· 1889 CE–1976 CE
- J. R. R. Tolkien· 1892 CE–1973 CE
- William Faulkner· 1897 CE–1962 CE
- René Magritte· 1898 CE–1967 CE
- Friedrich Hayek· 1899 CE–1992 CE
- Jorge Luis Borges· 1899 CE–1986 CE
- Ernest Hemingway· 1899 CE–1961 CE
- Aaron Copland· 1900 CE–1990 CE
- John Steinbeck· 1902 CE–1968 CE
- Salvador Dalí· 1904 CE–1989 CE
- Pablo Neruda· 1904 CE–1973 CE
- Jean-Paul Sartre· 1905 CE–1980 CE
- Hannah Arendt· 1906 CE–1975 CE
- Dmitri Shostakovich· 1906 CE–1975 CE
- Frida Kahlo· 1907 CE–1954 CE
- Simone de Beauvoir· 1908 CE–1986 CE
- Albert Camus· 1913 CE–1960 CE
- Malcolm X· 1925 CE–1965 CE
- Gabriel García Márquez· 1927 CE–2014 CE
- Martin Luther King Jr.· 1929 CE–1968 CE
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- Ronald Reagan· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Gerald Ford· 1913 CE–2006 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- Nelson Mandela· 1918 CE–2013 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Boris Yeltsin· 1931 CE–2007 CE
- George H. W. Bush· 1924 CE–2018 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
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