Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988 and wrote The Cairo Trilogy.
Mahfouz was an Egyptian novelist and short-story writer whose fiction transformed Cairo into a richly detailed literary world. The Cairo Trilogy follows several generations of the Abd al-Jawad family in the first half of the twentieth century.
The trilogy consists of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. Together, the novels examine family authority, religion, politics, social change, and Egypt’s movement toward modernity.
Mahfouz was the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His award helped bring modern Arabic fiction to a much wider international readership.