Autore: Ezzat El Kamhawi

Ezzat El Kamhawi, an Egyptian novelist and journalist, was born in 1961 and studied journalism at Cairo University. He is the editor-in-chief of al-Doha Cultural Magazine. He is the author of ten books, including four novels and two collections of short stories. The House of El Deeb was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2012. Nancy Roberts is the translator of Salwa Bakr”s The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation. Her other recent translations include Naguib Mahfouz”s Love in the Rain (AUC Press, 2011) and The Mirage (AUC Press, 2009), Ibrahim Nasrallah”s Time of White Horses (AUC Press, 2012), and Abdulaziz Al Farsi”s Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs (AUC Press, 2013).