Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind". The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988, announced October 13, 1988. Naguib Mahfouz, “who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”. Naguib Mahfouz: born 1911, Cairo, Egypt. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).