Georges Henein

Georges Henein was born in Cairo in 1914, the son of a Coptic diplomat and an Italian-Egyptian mother. He spent his childhood between Cairo, Madrid, Rome and Paris, studied at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly then at the Sorbonne, and chose French as his language of writing. Linked to André Breton and the Surrealists, he founded the Art et Liberté group in Cairo. He drifted away from Surrealism in 1948, left Egypt in 1962, at odds with Nasser's rule, and lived in France, where he died in 1973.

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• PoetryDéraisons d'êtreGeorges Henein · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature