However, towards the end of the twentieth century, there was an increase of translations of Arabic books into other languages, and Arabic authors began to receive a certain amount of acclaim. Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz had most if not all of his works translated after he won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Several other writers, including Abdul Rahman Munif and Tayeb Salih have been taken quite seriously by Western scholars, and both Alaa Al Aswany's "The Yacoubian Building" and Rajaa al-Sanea's "Girls of Riyadh" attracted significant Western media attention in the first decade of the twenty-first century.