Sonallah Ibrahim
صنع الله إبراهيم
Writer
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Egypt
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Cairo,
Egypt
Major Egyptian novelist known for spare, politically direct prose and for publicly declining a state literary prize in protest.
Sonallah Ibrahim built a reputation for unadorned, politically engaged prose across decades of Egyptian fiction, and became widely known in 2003 for publicly rejecting a major Egyptian state literary award as a protest against government policy.
Representation
Independent