A Voice from the Other World*

Naguib Mahfouz in 1988 became the first Arab Nobel Laureate in Literature. His roughly sixty books cover virtually every style and genre of fiction. He lives in the Cairo suburb of Agouza.  

Raymond Stock, a doctoral student in Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, is writing a biography of Naguib Mahfouz, with his cooperation, for Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Since December 1999 he has been working on a project with the Nobel Library at the Swedish Academy to improve its collections of non-Western literature. He lives in Cairo, Detroit and Philadelphia.