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)
“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,”
—Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)