Happy Birthday, Naguib Mahfouz
This evening, the 17th Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature will be awarded on this, the 102nd anniversary of the author’s birth. Until then, have some cake, read a little, enjoy the party:
Or you can peruse the work of previous award-winners, 1996-2012. I will add, for possibly the 300th time, that the award-winners are oddly gender-balanced. Which is a good thing. Of course.
FROM MAHFOUZ
Excerpt from Midaq Alley in Swedish, Arabic, and English
Excerpt from The Thief and the Dogs
FROM MAHFOUZ’S TRANSLATORS
William Hutchins on Translating Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Trilogy’ and ‘Cairo Modern’
5 Thoughts from Raymond Stock on Translating the Master
Q&A with Naguib Mahfouz Biographer Raymond Stock: On the Author’s Life, Archives
5 Questions with Catherine Cobham on Translation Mahfouz’s ‘Harafish’
‘HOW I MET MAHFOUZ’ SERIES
Margaret Litvin: Meeting Mahfouz: An Evening at the Nadwa
How I Met Mahfouz: Amira Nowaira on Growing Up with the Trilogy
How I Met Mahfouz: Down ‘Midaq Alley’ in ’77
Gada Mahfud Dhiem: How I Met Naguib Mahfouz: ‘He’s Always Been in My Life’
Naila Kelani: ‘How I Met Mahfouz’ and Found the Doorway to (Real) Arab Lit
MORE MAHFOUZ MEMORIES
Mohamed Salmawy: Memories of Naguib Mahfouz and the Movies
From AUC Press: Faten Mahfouz speaks about her Nobel laureate father
MORE
A centenary video celebration from AUC Press:
2013 Naguib Mahfouz Medal to Khaled Khalifa’s ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ « Arabic Literature (in English)
December 11, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
[…] able to attend the awards ceremony, which is held every year on December 11 in celebration of Naguib Mahfouz’s birth. Khalifa didn’t receive an Egyptian visa enabling him to travel to Cairo, and thus the award […]