Naguib Mahfouz

I have chosen Naguib Mahfouz my hero because I love him very much, and I am sure that he is one of the greatest writers in EGYPT and the whole world. Also, I like his stories very much because they present the time of writing it.

Naguib Mafouz

Mahfouz was born in the Gamaliya quarter of Cairo, named after Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz (1882-1974), the physician who delivered him. A longtime civil servant, Mahfouz served in the Ministry of Mortmain Endowments, then as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, Director of the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and finally as a consultant to the Ministry of Culture. He saw a sister of one of his friends that called 'atiat allah' and decided to marry her but he did not tell anybody about his marriage (1945).

Lately, he had got two daughters called Om Kolthom and Fatma. He had fallen in love when he was 15 with a girl whose age was 20, and he translated it in his famous novel Cairo Trilogy. The special thing in his life is to wake up in an exact time, walking: he did not stop walking for the rest of his life whether in winter or in summer, sitting on the cafe: In Aali Baba: his day began in it by reading some newspapers and drinking coffee, drinking coffee two times in the morning, and smoking a cigarette every half an hour before a heart surgery, but this is became impossible in his life later

Every Thursday the great writer writes a short article in "Al Ahram" newspaper. He stopped writing because of his treatment and then completed from 22\12\1994. Art was one of the things that he made sure to know about. After that he is interested in theater and cinema. His relation with cinema was from the 40s when his friend Salah Abou Yousssef asked him to write with him the script about Antar and Aabla. And that was his entering into the cinema, where he wrote large number of scripts.

He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Arabic-language films. From his works: The Beginning and the End {1950}, The Cairo Trilogy, Palace Walk {1956}, Palace of Desire {1957} and Sugar Street {1957}. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988 and his daughters accepted the award in his name. Mahfouz was accorded a state funeral with full military honors on August 31, 2006 in Cairo.