Bahaa Taher

Bahaa Taher was born on 13 January 1935, in Giza, into a family from Upper Egypt. A graduate in history of Cairo University in 1956, he contributed to the avant-garde review Galerie 68. Banned from publishing under Sadat, he left Egypt, worked as a translator in Africa and Asia, then in Geneva for the international organisations, before returning in the nineties. In 2008 he received the first International Prize for Arabic Fiction and died on 27 October 2022.

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• NovelAunt Safiyya and the Monasteryخالتي صفية والديرBahaa Taher · 1991Literature