Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Naguib Mahfouz
Born: December 11, 1911
Died: August 30, 2006 (aged 94)
Bio: Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.
Known for:
- Palace Walk (1956)
- Children of Gebelawi (1959)
- Midaq Alley (1947)
- Palace of Desire (1957)
- Sugar Street (1957)