UDK 821.412.09:929 MAHFUZ
Author
Mehmed Kico
Summary
Naguib Mahfuz, a Nobel Prize recipient for literature, a productive writer, an author of numerous novels, short stories and movie scripts, as well as fighter for the defense of the Arab literary language, is a subject of interest of researchers from points of various theories.In order to be adequately welcomed, as a heritor of a language that is insufficiently known to most readers, the condition was that a sufficient number of his works was available in foreign languages.Dedication for writing exclusively in the literary language has allowed him to become not only the top-of-the-list writer in Arab countries, but also the most read modern Arab writer in the world. In a persistent struggle for an appropriate position of the literary language one can see a contribution to the affirmation of the literary language equal to the contribution of foremost linguists, and the dedication of the Swedish Academy that the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988 went to Naguib Mahfuz, meant the affirmation of that language.
Key words
Naguib Mahfuz, cosmopolitanism, translation, Arab, literary language, folk speech, colloquial speech
URL: https://www.ibn-sina.net/en/cosmopolitanism-of-naguib-mahfuz-in-light-translation/