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World renowned Egyptian writer Nagib Mahfuz, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, has been taken to hospital, a hospital official said Thursday.
Mahfuz, 95, is suffering from kidney problems, pneumonia and other ailments relating to his age, said Muntassem Abdel Muti, spokesman at Cairo's Police Hospital where he is being treated.
Born in Cairo in 1911, Mahfuz is Egypt's most celebrated intellectual with about 50 novels to his name.
He was the victim of an assassination attempt by Islamists in 1994.
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