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With a Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz shaped the nature of Arabic literature in the twentieth century with his masterpiece "The Cairo Trilogy". Egypt's women writers such as Nawal al-Saadawi, author of "Woman at Point Zero", or Ahdaf Soueif, author of "The Map of Love", are enjoying more international success than the men. Some famous western novels of Egypt are worth reading to feel the atmosphere of the country : "The Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell, "City of Gold" by Len Deighton (based on solid research on Cairo) or "The Photographer's Wife" by Robert Sole (for details on nineteenth century Egypt). |