Name Khairy Shalaby Role Novelist | TV shows AlKoumy | |
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Died September 9, 2011, Cairo, Egypt Books The Lodging House, The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets, The Hashish Waiter |
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Khairy Shalaby (خيري شلبي) (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011) 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.”
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Adam Talib, who translated The Hashish Waiter, said of Shalaby’s prose:

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Honors
Shalaby's The Lodging House won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003. The Lodging House was listed by the Arab Writers Union as one of the “top 105” books of the last century. Istasia was longlisted for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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