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Naguib Mahfouz Medal For Literature
The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature () is a literary award for Arabic literature.Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature , official website. It is given to the best contemporary novel written in , but not available in English translation. The winning book is then translated into English, and published by American University in Cairo Press. It was first awarded in 1996 and is presented annually on December 11, the birthday of Nobel laureate , by the President of the |
Nagib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind". Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He published 35 novels, over 350 short stories, 26 screenplays, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and seven plays over a 70-year career, from the 1930s until 2004. All of his novels take place in Egypt, and always mention the lane which equals the world. His most famous works include '' The Cairo Trilogy'' and ''Children of Gebelawi''. Many of Mahfouz's works have been made i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khairy Shalaby
Khairy Shalaby (; January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)The American University in Cairo Press was an Egyptian novelist and writer. He wrote some 70 books, including twenty novels, critical studies, historical tales, plays and short story collections. Khairy is widely regarded as having written novels “of the Egyptian street.”"Egyptian Novelist Khairy Shalaby Dies at 73" M. Lynx Qualey, Arabic Literature (in English), September 9, 2011 Adam Talib, who translated ''The Hashish Waiter'', said of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Daoud
Hassan Daoud (; born 1950) is a Lebanese writer and journalist. Originally from the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon, he moved to Beirut as a child with his family. He studied Arabic literature at university. He has been a journalist since the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975. He served as a correspondent for ''al-Hayat'' for 11 years. As of 2012 he edited ''Nawafez'', the cultural supplement of the Beiruti newspaper '' al-Mustaqbal''. Daoud has published eight novels and two volumes of short stories. As of 2011, five of the novels have been translated into English. Daoud has also been translated into French and German (by Hartmut Faehndrich). His work has appeared in Banipal magazine. Awards and honors *2015 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature winner for ''No Road to Paradise'' Works * ''The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine'' (translated by Randa Jarrar) * ''Borrowed Time'' (translated by Michael K Scott) * ''The House of Mathilde'' (trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammour Ziada
Hammour Ziada (, born 1979) is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. Before, he had been writing for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudan. Two of his novels were selected for Arabic literary awards and appeared in English translations. Life and career In Sudan, Ziada worked for national newspapers, including ''Al-Mustaqilla'', ''Ajras al-Horriya'', and ''Al-Jarida''. At ''Al-Akhbar,'' he served as the culture editor. Ziada has published several volumes of fiction in Arabic, and is best known for his second novel '' Shawq al-darwīsh (The Longing of the Dervish''), which won the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Prize in Egypt in 2014 and was also nominated for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This novel, that takes place during the Mahdist state, and several of his stories have appeared in English translation, including the anthology ''The Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaled Khalifa
Khaled Khalifa (; 1 January 1964 – 30 September 2023) was a Syrian novelist, screenwriter and poet. He was nominated three times and shortlisted twice for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). Some of his novels have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish and other languages. His works frequently criticized the Syrian Baathist government, leading to their ban in the country. Biography Early life Khalifa was born on 1 January 1964 in the village Urum al-Sughra near Aleppo to a Syrian family of olive farmers and agricultural machinery traders. Khalifa’s extended family was engaged in olive cultivation and the production of olive oil, as well as in the trade of spare parts for trucks, cars and agricultural machines. He was the fifth child in a family of nine boys, four girls, two mothers, and a father who worked as a policeman until he retired in 1965. He first studied in the city of Aleppo, where his family lived at the time, and graduated from A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' (; ), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second-oldest after '' Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt. Given the many varieties of Arabic language, ''Al-Ahram'' is widely considered an influential source of writing style in Arabic. In 1950, the Middle East Institute described ''Al-Ahram'' as being to the Arabic-reading public within its area of distribution, "What ''The Times'' is to Englishmen and ''The New York Times'' to Americans";Middle East Institute, 1950, p. 155. however, it has often been accused of heavy influence and censorship by the Egyptian government. In addition to the main edition published in Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-language editions, one geared to the Arab world and the other aimed at an international audience, as well as editions in English a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of The Wolf (Novel)
House of the Wolf (''Bayt al-Deeb'', ) is Ezzat el Kamhawi's fourth novel and eighth book. It was first released in Arabic language in 2010 by Dar Al-Adab in Beirut. In December 2012, el Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature award for this novel, the English edition was released in 2013 by AUC Press. The translation was done by Nancy Roberts. Background In House of the Wolf el-Kamhawi deals with the lives of four generations of the Wolf (Al-Deeb) rural Egyptian family for more than one hundred and fifty years, monitoring the Egyptian and World history through the history of the family. A novel of 272 pages of medium size, and thus is considered the biggest work for Ezzat el Kamhawi Ezzat El Kamhawi () is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. In December 2012, El Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel ''House of the Wolf (Novel), House of the Wolf''. In June 2022 he was awarded the Samir Kas ..., a writer known for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezzat El Kamhawi
Ezzat El Kamhawi () is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. In December 2012, El Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel ''House of the Wolf (Novel), House of the Wolf''. In June 2022 he was awarded the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of Press, Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press (Opinion Piece category) for his article "Suspicious architecture: The obsession with grand buildings and wide streets". He was born in 1961 and graduated from the department of journalism in the ''Faculty of Mass Communications'', Cairo University in 1983. Early life and career El Kamhawi was born on 23 December 1961 in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, before graduating from high school he had articles published for him in the ''Al Gomhuria'' newspaper. After graduating from the department of journalism in the Faculty of Mass Communications, Cairo University, he started working for ''Al Akhbar (Egypt), Al-Akhbar'', where he helped establish ''Akhbar Al-Adab'' 10 ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miral Al-Tahawy
Miral al-Tahawy (), also known as Miral Mahgoub, is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. She comes from a conservative Bedouin background and is regarded as a pioneering literary figure. The ''Washington Post'' has described her as "the first novelist to present Egyptian Bedouin life beyond stereotypes and to illustrate the crises of Bedouin women and their urge to break free." Biography She was born in a village in the Sharqia Governorate in the eastern Nile delta. Her Bedouin family belongs to the al-Hanadi tribe. Al-Tahawy is the youngest of seven children. She has stated that her progressive-thinking father was responsible for her obtaining an education, in spite of the constraints of traditional Bedouin society especially on women. She gained a BA in Arabic literature from Zagazig University, and then worked as a schoolteacher which allowed her to avoid early marriage. She then continued her education at Cairo University, moving to the city at the age of 26. This brough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Sweileh
Khalil Sweileh (; born 1959) is a Syrian journalist and novelist. He was born in the mainly Kurdish city of Al-Hasakah in northern Syria and studied literature at Damascus University. He has since worked for a number of cultural publications in various capacities. Sweileh received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2009 for his novel ''Writing Love'', translated by Alexa Firat and published in English in 2012. In his acceptance speech, Sweileh mentioned that as a village boy, his chance discovery of a tattered copy of Mahfouz's novel '' Khufu's Wisdom'' was partly responsible for inspiring his love of literature. His previous novels include ''Express Mail'' (2004), ''Do Not Blame Me (2006)'', and ''Zuhur, Sara, and Nariman'' (2008). In 2010, he won the Arab Journalism Award and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is a literary award presented yearly to writers, intellectuals, publishers whose writings and scholarly publications contributed to Arab cultural, litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Hamdi Abu Golayyel (; 1968 – 12 June 2023) was an Egyptian writer. The author of several novels and collections of short stories, he is known as one of the new voices in Egyptian fiction. Among other awards, he won the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2022. The literary magazine ArabLit called him a "chronicler of the lives of Egypt’s marginalized and working-class." Life and career Abu Golayyel was born in 1968 in a Bedouin village in the Fayoum region. His ancestors arrived from Libya in the early 19th century to settle in Fayoum. Abu Golayyel migrated to Cairo in the early 1980s, and worked as a construction labourer on building sites. These experiences later provided material for his literary writings. His first book was a collection of short stories published in 1997 under the title ''Swarm of Bees''. His second collection ''Items Folded with Great Care'', released in 2000, won several literary awards. These stories deal with the author’s Bedouin her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amina Zaydan
Amina Zaydan (; born 1966) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1966 in Suez and now lives in Cairo where she works as a civil servant. Zaydan is known for her strong stand on gender inequality in her writings. In 1994, her short story collection entitled ''It Happened Secretly'' won first prize in a literary competition held by Gamal al-Ghitani's ''Akhbar al-Adab'' weekly newspaper. It also won the prize for Best Short Story Collection at the Cairo International Book Fair the following year. She has since published a further volume of short stories called ''Fawda'' and several novels. Her second novel ''Red Wine'' won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2007. An English translation of ''Red Wine'' by Sally Gomaa was published by the AUC Press The American University in Cairo Press (AUCP, AUC Press) is the leading English-language publisher in the Middle East. The largest translator of Arabic literature in the world, AUC Press has a reputation for carefully ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
