Egyptian Nobel Literature Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz has died after suffering from a bleeding ulcer.
Mr Mahfouz, 94, had been in intensive care since he suffered a sudden drop in blood pressure and kidney dysfunction.
He had been hospitalised on 19 July after he fell in the street and sustained a deep head wound that required immediate surgery.
The Egyptian author won the Nobel Prize in 1988, becoming the first writer in Arabic to win the award.
He is best known for his Cairo Trilogy, in which he narrated developments in Egypt through the eyes of a middle class family over three generations.
Mr Mahfouz was admitted to hospital regularly in recent years, most famously after being stabbed in the neck in 1994 by Muslim militants because of his portrayal of God in one of his novels.
Egyptian writer Youssef al-Quaid told Egyptian television: "He came to this world only to write. He was the most famous writer in Egypt... He had an incredible ability to create and create all his life."
