Salwa Bakr

Salwa Bakr was born in Cairo in 1949, the daughter of a railwayman. She graduated in commerce from Ain Shams University in 1972, then in literary criticism in 1976, and worked as a journalist and as a film and theatre critic. She lived for several years in Cyprus and returned to Egypt in the mid-1980s. Her first collection of short stories appeared in 1985 and made her known. In 1993 she received the Deutsche Welle prize; her books have been translated into nine languages.

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• NovelThe Man from BashmourالبشموريSalwa Bakr · 1998Literature