In commemoration of the death anniversary of Egypt's most prominent novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the county's General Authority for Cultural Palaces (GACP) will organize a series of artistic and cultural activities, al-Bawaba News reported Sunday. Head of the authority, Mohamed Nassef said one of Mahfouz's works will be theatrically produced next month. Mahfouz, whose works can be classifies as milestones of modernism and existentialism, was the first Arab novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988. A seminar on Mahfouz's works will be held in Alexandria as well as another 140 seminars in multiple literature centers across Egypt to commemorate the late novelist, Head of Central Administration for Cultural Affairs, Mohamed Abu el-Magd said.