Sahar Tawfiq
Author
1951 –
Who is Sahar Tawfiq?
Sahar Tawfiq is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer and translator. Born and raised in Cairo, she studied Arabic language and literature at Al-Azhar University. She has worked as a teacher and educationist in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Her first published work was a short story in an Egyptian weekly in 1971. Her first collection of stories An Tanhadera ash-Shams was well received. After a long hiatus, her next book, a novel called Ta'am ez-Zaitoun, came out in 2000. Since then she has published more works of fiction. She has also translated works from English into Arabic, e.g. books by Margaret Atwood, Ishmael Beah, Doris Lessing and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Sahar Tawfiq's work has appeared in Banipal magazine. Points of the Compass, a volume of her short stories translated by Marilyn Booth, won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award in 1994.
She was married to the late sculptor Adel al-Sharqawi. She lives in Maadi, Cairo.
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- Born
- 1951
Egypt - Also known as
- Saḥar Tawfīq
- Nationality
- Egypt
- Education
- Al-Azhar University
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on July 23, 2013
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