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Gamal al-Ghitani
Biography
Gamal al-Ghitani was born in Sohag in 1945 but grew up in Cairo. He came from a poor family and was a self-educated man. He began writing at a young age and his first short story was published when he was fourteen. He started work as a carpet designer and then became a journalist, becoming editor of al-Achbar and, subsequently, editor of the weekly Akhbar el-Adab He wrote novels, short stories and memoirs. He died in 2015.
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Bibliography
(Note: Only books in English translation)
1974 الزيني بركات (Zayni Barakat) (novel)
1976 وقائع حارة الزعفراني (Incidents in Zafrani Alley later: The Zafarani Files) (novel)
1983-1986 كتاب التجليات (The Book of Epiphanies) (novel) (Note that the English translation is only an abridgement of the original Arabic)
1993 قصص قصيرة (A Distress Call) (stories)
1994 متون الأهرام (Pyramid Texts) (novel)
1999 Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz (photos by by Britta Le Va, text by al-Ghitani)
2006 نجيب محفوظ يتذك (The Mahfouz Dialogs)
2015 دفاتر التدوين (Traces) (memoirs)