Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, died yesterday at the age of 94.

Mahfouz, who the New York Times said is the "the Arab world’s foremost novelist" wrote 33 novels, 13 anthologies of short stories, several plays and 30 screenplays.

The Addison library has several of his works including, Arabian Days and Nights and Sugar Street.