LONDON.- Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a major cache of manuscripts by Naguib Mahfouz, probably the most important Egyptian novelist of the 20th century and the only Arab writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The archive estimated at £50,000 – £70,000, will be sold in the English Literature, History, Private Press, Children’s Books and Illustrations sale on 15th December 2011. This extraordinarily rich and diverse group of manuscripts spans seven decades of the author’s career, from the 1930s to his death in 2006. Dr Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby’s Senior Manuscripts Specialist said: “It is an immense honour to be offering what is to the best of our knowledge, the first manuscript material by Naguib Mahfouz to appear at public auction – much of it previously unpublished. Throughout his life, Mahfouz constantly revisited his great subject, the city of Cairo and what is perhaps mos