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Ahmed Fagih

Died in 2019

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Faqih was born on 28 December 1942 in Mizda, in southern Tripolitania. A journalist from his teens, in 1965 he received, for his first story collection, the highest award of the royal fine arts commission, then trained in the United Kingdom, where he defended a doctorate in literature. A diplomat in London, Athens, Bucharest and Cairo, he wrote short stories, plays, essays and a twelve-volume novel cycle, and lived between Tripoli and Cairo, where he died on 30 April 2019.

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