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  "en": "Naguib Mahfouz — Nobel Prize facts page"
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  "ar": "صفحة وقائع جائزة نوبل عن نجيب محفوظ: وُلد في القاهرة سنة 1911 وتوفي فيها سنة 2006، ونال جائزة نوبل في الأدب سنة 1988 لأنه شكّل فنّا سرديا عربيا ينطبق على البشرية جمعاء.",
  "en": "Nobel Prize facts page for Naguib Mahfouz: born in Cairo in 1911, died in Cairo in 2006; Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 for having formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."
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  "title": "Naguib Mahfouz – Facts",
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  "URL": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1988/mahfouz/facts/",
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  "reliability_note": "The award body's own record: birth (11 December 1911, Cairo, Egypt), death (30 August 2006, Cairo — English Wikipedia places the death more precisely in Agouza, Giza), residence at the time of the award (Egypt), prize motivation ('who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind'), language (Arabic) and full prize share (1/1), plus its short life and work summaries (a lifelong Cairo resident; civil servant at the culture ministry; philosophy at Cairo University, graduated 1934; more than 30 novels and 350 short stories). Read as opened on 24 Oct 2026.",
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