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". December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006; died at 94. Alive at the same time as Barack Obama, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Pope Francis, and Neil Armstrong. Wiki link