Yūsuf Idrīs: Quick Facts

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Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer

Ṭāhā Ḥusayn

Egyptian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

James Joyce

Irish author

Henry James

American writer

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

James Baldwin

American author

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Graham Greene

British author

Albert Camus

French author

Rita Dove

American author

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian author

Zadie Smith

British author

Péter Nádas

Hungarian author

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian author

E.L. Doctorow

American author

Robert Coover

American author