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...journalists who gathered in Stockholm's Stock Exchange building to learn the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature were once more caught off guard. Naguib who? The answer: Mahfouz, a 76-year-old Egyptian novelist, playwright and film writer. If the choice was predictably unpredictable, the selection procedure seemed familiar. The Swedish Academy again paddled out of the mainstream, this time heading up the Nile to honor the first Arabic writer in the 87-year history of the prize...
...which normally sells only 200 copies of Mahfouz's work each year, reported receiving 400 orders after last week's announcement. The author too is in demand, but he is unlikely to stray far from his favorite cafes, not even to accept his Nobel and its $390,000 cash prize in December. He is pleading frail health, although Ahmed Bahaa-Eldin, columnist for the newspaper al-Ahram and a close friend, says that he chuckles at the excuse. The Arab world's best-known novelist is, Bahaa-Eldin notes, famous among his friends for his fear of flying...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--American researchers Gertrude Elion and George H. Hitchings and Sir James W. Black of Great Britain won the 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for their discoveries leading to a series of new drugs...
...Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute, which awards the prize, said Black developed a drug called propranolol in 1964 used in the treatment of heart disease. The work of Elion and Hitchings, who have collaborated since 1945, led to a series of drugs for the treatment of cancer...
...prize was approved by a majority vote of the institute's 50-member Nobel Assembly on the recommendation of a five-member committee which studied hundreds of research briefs over the last year. Normally about 250 researchers are nominated for the prize each year...