Nobel laureate
Naguib Mahfouz — Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
“who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”
Prize motivation
“who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”
The Swedish Academy awarded Naguib Mahfouz the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.
Other laureates of the 1980s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).