Cairo Trilogy
The Cairo Trilogy (Arabic: الثلاثية 'The Trilogy' or ثلاثية القاهرة 'The Cairo Trilogy') is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. It is one of the best known works of his literary career.
Translations
[change | change source]The Cairo Trilogy was first translated into Hebrew between 1981 and 1987. Mahfouz was very satisfied by this and saw it as another proof that the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 should be supported. The English translation was published by Doubleday in the early 1990s. The translators were:
- Palace Walk - William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny
- Palace of Desire - Hutchins, Olive Kenny and Lorne Kenny
- Sugar Street - Hutchins, Olive Kenny and Angele Botros Samaan
The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, an editor at Doubleday at the time, and Martha Levin.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Hutchins mss". www.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
