Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Swedish Academy’s announcement that international author Naguib Mahfouz had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is regarded as the only author to have received the honour for a work published in the Arabic language, and he has continuously improved Arabic literature for fifty years.
Mahfouz Thaber has been writing for fifty years and is still active at the age of seventy-seven, according to the academy’s justifications.
The following was said in the press release from the Swedish Academy’s Office of the Permanent Secretary announcing Naguib Mahfouz’s award of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature: The Swedish Academy decided to give an Egyptian citizen, Naguib Mahfouz, who was born in Cairo, the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. He is also the first recipient whose first literary language is Arabic.
The statement continued, “Naguib Mahfouz al-accomplishment Azim’s and the crucial lie in his creativity on the field of novels and short stories, and his production means a strong prosperity for the novel as a literary type, as it contributed to the development of the literary language in cultural circles throughout the Arabic-speaking world.”
The international writer Naguib Mahfouz had to travel to Sweden to receive the award on the tenth of December of that year, but he did not travel, and he refused to travel to obtain the award and spent his night at the time between his friends, and he watched the ceremony on TV as the rest On his behalf, a word.
The only Arab to win the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 34 was Naguib Mahfouz.
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