Background
She was born in 1966 in Suez and now lives in Cairo where she works as a civil servant.
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Amina Zaydan
Edit Profilenovelist civil servant short story writer
Career
Zaydan is known for her strong stand on gender inequality in her writings. She has since published a further volume of short stories called Fawda and several novels. An English translation of Red Wine by Sally Gomaa was published by the AUC Press in 2010.
Achievements
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In 1994, her short story collection entitled lieutenant Happened Secretly won first prize in a literary competition held by Gamal al-Ghitani"s Akhbar al-Adab weekly newspaper. lieutenant also won the prize for Best Short Story Collection at the Cairo International Book Fair the following year. Her second novel Red Wine won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2007.
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Born
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Nationality
Egypt