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Article: Embargoed literature. (Arabic literature is not widely translated or accepted)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- September 17, 1990
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Embargoed Literature
Eight years before Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature, a major New York commercial publisher known for his liberal and unprovincial views asked me to suggest some Third World novels for translation and inclusion in a series be was planning. The list I gave him was headed by two or these of Mahfouz's works, none of which was then in circulation in the United States. True, there were a few novels by the Egyptian master available in England, but these has never gained entry into the United States, and even in Europe were principally known only by a few students of Arabic. Several weeks after I submitted my list I inquired which ...
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