Muhammad Abdallah Muthanna (born 1945 or 1947) is a

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i novelist,

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and short story writer. He was born in Hudaida and was educated in

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. In the 1970s, he was jailed several times by the authorities for his activities as a political dissident. He has worked in journalism as well as in government.Biographical notes in ''The Literature of Modern Arabia''
/ref> He is a prolific writer of fiction and drama and is well known for his short stories, which have been translated into English and

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. His first collection of stories, entitled ''Fi giawf al-layl'' (In the Heart of the Night), came out in 1976. Subsequent collections include ''Al-jabal yabtasim aydan'' (1978) and ''Rihlat al-umr'' (2002). In 1990, he won an Arabic short story award presented in

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, Egypt.

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1940s births 20th-century Yemeni novelists Living people Year of birth uncertain People from Al Hudaydah Governorate Yemeni expatriates in Egypt {{Yemen-writer-stub