Said al-Kafrawi

Said al-Kafrawi was born in 1939 in Kafr Hijazi, near Mahalla al-Kubra, in the Delta. In the 1960s he belonged to the literary circle of the Mahalla house of culture. Arrested in 1970 after the publication of a short story, he spent several months in prison, an episode from which Naguib Mahfouz drew inspiration for a character in Karnak Café. He devoted himself to the short story alone, edited a series at the General Egyptian Book Organisation and received in 2016, according to Arab World Books, the State Prize of Excellence. He died on 14 November 2020.

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• Short storiesمدينة الموت الجميلSaid al-Kafrawi · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature