Given the question: Information:  - Naguib Mahfouz ("", ; December 11, 1911  August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.  - Arabic literature (/ ALA-LC: "al-Adab al-Arab") is the writing, both prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ""Adab"", which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.  - Egypt (; ', , "Kimi"), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan, and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia, although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with Egypt. It is the world's only contiguous Afrasian nation.  - Miramar is a novel authored by Naguib Mahfouz , an Egyptian Nobel Prize - winning author . It was written in 1967 and translated into English in 1978 .  - The Nobel Prize (; Swedish definite form, singular: "Nobelpriset") is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances.    After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'miramar ' with the relationship of 'original language of work'.  Choices: - arabic  - egyptian  - israel  - norwegian  - swedish
The answer is:
arabic