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Name
  
Ibrahim Meguid

Role
  
Novelist

Education
  
Alexandria University


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Awards
  
Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

Books
  
No One Sleeps in Alexandria, The House of Jasmine, Birds of Amber, Other Place

Presentation of the book “No One Sleeps in Alexandria” by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (in Arabic)


Ibrahim Abdel Meguid is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and author. He was born in Alexandria in 1946 and studied philosophy at Alexandria University. He obtained his BA in 1973 and moved to Cairo the following year. He published his first novel around the same time. Among his best known works are Birds of Amber, No One Sleeps in Alexandria and The Other Place. These have been translated into English and French.

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Awards and honors

  • 1996 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, inaugural winner for The Other Place
  • 2015 Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, inaugural co-winner for Adagio

    • Selected works

  • Birds of Amber, translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
  • Distant Train, translated by Hosam M. Aboul-Ela
  • No One Sleeps in Alexandria, translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
  • The Other Place, translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab
  • The House of Jasmine, translated by Noha Radwan

    • References

    Ibrahim Abdel Meguid Wikipedia
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