Mohamed Nagui
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Mohamed Nagui
Mohamed Nagui | |
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| Born | Missing required parameter 1=month! , 1946 |
| Died | November 19, 2014 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Cause of death | Liver complications due to Hepatitis C virus |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and Novelist |
| Known for | “Khafia Qamar” (The Hidden Moon) |
| Notable work | “Lahn al-Sabah” (Morning's Melody), “Maqamat Arabiya” (Arab Keys), “Leilat Safar” (Departure night) and “Qas & Nelly.” |
| Awards | 2009 Egyptian Writers Union "Award of Excellence"[1]
2013 State Excellence Award in Literature (Egypt)Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). |
Mohamed Nagui, a remarkable Egyptian writer and novelist, is the author of several well-known novels, including 'Al-Affendy', 'Morning Song' and 'Travel Night'. His last book, 'Prayers of Forgetting', was published in 2011, and dealt with his personal battle with cancer.
Background Information
Mohamed Nagui was born in 1946 in Samanoud, Minya governorate.[2] As a young man, Nagui began writing poems, many of which were published in Arab magazines. He earned his degree from the Faculty of Arts and soon after served in the military from 1969 to 1974. Nagui went on to establish a career in journalism, working for various news outlets, oftentimes editing and publishing stories. Over the course of his life, his artistic style varied, going from writing poems to writing novels. Yet, his works share the common theme of being about the human experience and connecting with nature.[1] Interestingly, his works sometimes took on a political undertone - one of his most well-known works, the 2008 novel El-Effendi (also transliterated as al-Affandi, or just "Effendi" in English), for example, was a "criticism of [a] middle class obsessed with chasing monetary and personal gain at the expense of the nation and society."[3] Yet, even with this story, Nagui resisted the temptation to produce purely political works, with one critic noting how: "On the surface, Mohamed Nagui's The Effendi looks like another one of those anger-laden books about the corruption eating contemporary Egypt from the inside out...[But] Nagui uses the by now cliched template of the Egyptian young man who snakes his way up using unethical short-cuts and sleight-of-hand, and turns it over its head by writing something closer to a modern fairytale."[4] In his works, Nagui shows a special affinity for the city of Alexandria, with one author noting how he and other "Proto-Modernists" like Mahmoud Said used Alexandria, "that most promiscuous of cities", as a model for what constitutes "Egyptianness".[5] To date, Nagui remains widely regarded as one of the most influential writers to have ever come from the pan-Arab region.
Death
After a 4-year battle with Hepatitis C, Nagui passed away on November 20, 2014, in Paris, where he had lived following a liver transplant a couple of years prior.
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- ^ a b Jamal Ashour. "Novelist Mohamed Naji". Retrieved March 24, 2015.
- ^ Heba Helmy. "Mohamed Nagy dies leaving behind creative wealth of literary works". Retrieved March 3, 2015.
- ^ Nada Ramadan. "The Egyptian Contemporary Novel: A Survey of a Revolutionary Endeavour". Retrieved March 30, 2015.
{{cite web}}: line feed character in|title=at position 33 (help) - ^ Ahmed Khalifa. "The Effendi by Mohamed Nagui". Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ^ Marion True and Kenneth Harma. "Alexandria and Alexandrianism".
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