Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006)

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1. Naguib Mahfouz

   Author of Palace Walk, Children of the Alley, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

2. V. S. Naipaul

   Author of A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mystic Masseur, A Way in the World: A Novel

3. Orhan Pamuk

   Author of Snow, My Name is Red, The White Castle

4. José Saramago

   Author of All the Names, The Cave, Death with Interruptions

5. Lawrence Durrell

   Author of Justine, The Alexandria Quartet, Bitter Lemons

6. Salman Rushdie

   Author of Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh, Shame

7. Mario Vargas Llosa

   Author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Storyteller, In Praise of the Stepmother

8. Anthony Powell

   Author of A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, Summer, A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, Autumn, A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter

9. Amitav Ghosh

   Author of The Glass Palace, The Calcutta Chromosome, In an Antique Land

10. Paul Scott

    Author of The Jewel in the Crown, A Division of the Spoils, The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion (Everyman's Library)

11. Nadine Gordimer

    Author of July's People, My Son's Story, None to Accompany Me

12. Gabriel García Márquez

    Author of Of Love and other Demons, The General in His Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims

13. Ahdaf Soueif

    Author of The Map of Love, In the Eye of the Sun
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14. Penelope Fitzgerald

    Author of The Blue Flower, Offshore, The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

15. Alaa Al Aswany

    Author of The Yacoubian Building, Chicago
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16. Amin Maalouf

    Author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Samarkand, Leo Africanus

17. Yasunari Kawabata

    Author of Snow Country, Beauty and Sadness, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

18. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

    Author of The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, Seven Japanese Tales

19. Ivo Andrić

    Author of The Bridge on the Drina, Bosnian Chronicle

20. J. G. Farrell

    Author of The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles