Birthdays Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz - Naguib MahfouzOne of the greatest writers who have ever been of Arab culture throughout the ages
It was his life Nozja for devotion to writing, creativity and most important is represented by Odipana Naguib Mahfouz
That the author was not only Egypt, but he was polite to all Arabs
Although the pen did not leave Cairo and acolytes
It was able to represent all Arab cities and the lanes, and inhabited by figures
The literature is the best embodiment of the saying of
The local is the way to a global
He was able to highlight the concerns and human suffering
Through a narrow segment of the middle class Egyptian
And put through the hot Egyptian and Arab
All questions concerning the fate of human
Which his family to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo district aesthetic, in the December 11, 1911
He spent his childhood in the neighborhood aesthetic then went traveling with his family in the prestigious districts in Cairo, Egypt joined the university in 1930 and earned a Bachelor of Arts Department of Philosophy in 1934 Mahfouz began writing philosophical articles in newspapers and shuttling between government jobs, were unhappy about his life this way - It is said that the crisis Mental undergone by Kamal Abdel-Gawad, the protagonist (sugar) is the same crisis that was going through saved at this time.
Naguib Mahfouz tried to write the story and the story received warmly in the popular literary situation in his early forties. Mahfouz later wrote his trilogy Pharaonic (Radubis - futility of predestination - the struggle of good) and it was clear that it acts down on the ground black in this day and age. And then go to write a Mahfouz novel realism He wrote important works such as (beginning and end) (Mirage) (lane Medak), which are pivotal shift in the history of Egyptian literature .. Mahfouz has been submitted in this novel all the hot Egyptian secretes they contain a distinct literary form.
With the beginning of the fifties made Mahfouz Taha Hussein, his teacher, the most important (triple) Taha Hussein has praised the work highly commend. Met with three problems in the beginning especially in the publication of the large size, but later work was published in three parts into three major literary work written in Arabic in the last century. After the Tripartite Action Archive Ksenarist period in Egyptian cinema, co-authored several scenarios of the films made mention them (Ehna students - Al-Nasser Salah al-Din).
In the sixties opened up the headwaters of the genius of Naguib Mahfouz and completed maturity largely wrote the novel realism (such as Thief and the Dogs), and the novel, such as the absurd (Adrift on the Nile), and the stories Sufi (High God), and the novel with a clear religious projections (boys Gabalawy or Children of the Alley) novel which has been criticized harshly by some skeptics.
Naguib Mahfouz proved during his trip that the literary writer is not confined himself within the literary school, he moved from one school to another is smooth and has demonstrated proficiency in all works by .. Not only that, but tried to provide new forms of fiction as he did with (Miramar) or when he wrote the epic special way as he did with (Aharavi).
In 1988, Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize, the most famous international award in the arts, which obtained before and after the greatest writers and philosophers in the last century. In Egypt and the Arab world views differed on the winning Mahfouz Mahfouz Group of joy because he won the first Arab writer to receive this award, and the opening is important for Arab literature in general, and, above all, Mahfouz deserved. and a team win condemned Mahfouz as saying that he does not deserve or peaceful thoughts towards Israel, for example, or for stamping on religion in his novels, as has been said.
On the outside there was a major problem is that everyone interested in literature at the time was unaware of the name preserved completely, but this was in the past but now taller Vmahvoz world literature, and novels written by a lifelong become translated into many languages of the world does not need foreign translators to say : Egyptian writer, just say: Naguib Mahfouz.
Mahfouz died on Wednesday, August 30, 2006.
Perhaps the main reason for a celebration of Arab Bnaguib Mahfouz and his discovery before being discovered by the Nobel Prize years is the passion for Arabic language and the absence of temptation to write in the colloquial language which incites some critics to use.
