Many of Mahfouz's works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films no Arab writer exceeds Mahfouz in number of works that have been adapted for cinema and television. His most famous works include The Cairo Trilogy and Children of Gebelawi. All of his novels take place in Egypt, and always mentions the lane, which equals the world. He published 35 novels, over 350 short stories, 26 screenplays, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and seven plays over a 70-year career, from the 1930s until 2004. He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( Arabic: نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, IPA: 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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