Denys Johnson-Davies Quotes:
Ocupation: Translator
Life: b. 1922
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.
source: "Naguib Mahfouz" by Denys Johnson-Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2006. 
topic: Writing, Years, Fiction, Nobel Prize
