Naguib Mahfouz (an Egyptian writer)

Born: 11 December 1911 Cairo, Egypt, Died: 30 August 2006 (aged 94) Cairo, Egypt

He won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.
He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.