Egypt
- Gamal Al-Ghitani
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
- Alifa Rifaat
- Ahdaf Soueif
- Sonallah Ibrahim (born 1937)
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Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“Hieratic, slim and fair,
the tracery written here,
proclaims what’s left unsaid
in Egypt of her dead.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man’s and every being’s face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)