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The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz
Age: 94 †
Born: 1911
Born: December 11
Died: 2006
Died: August 30
Artist
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Film Writer
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Cairo
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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