Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ‎) (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian author who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in the district of Gamaliya and he studied philosophy at the University of Cairo. Mahfouz remained a bachelor until the age of 43. In 1954, he married an Egyptian woman, with whom he had two daughters. In his honor, a coffee shop in the Cairo bazaar, Khan al-Khalili, bears his name and has a portrait of the author in the main room.