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Continue to ChatModern 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. - Denys Johnson-Davies from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/modern-arabic-literature-achieved-international-recognition-when-mahfouz-was-awarded-the-nobel-prize-in-1988