Thanks go to Elizabeth Kendall for her research on the Gallery 68 movement from which this information has been taken.
Well known. Respected writer. He was born in 1924. His collected works were published in Cairo by the General Egyptian Book Organization in six volumes in 1993-5. He was one of the writers of "Gallery 68" , the literary magazine which soon became the mouthpiece of the writers of this generation.
A selection of his works are :
Short Story Collections
aI-Ushaq al-Khamsa (Cairo: Ruz al-Yusuf, 1954. Series: al-Kitab al-Dhahabi) (Cairo: al-Dar al-Qawmiyya, 1962. Series: al-Kitab al-Massi )
Rissala ila imra'a (Cairo: Ruz al-Yusuf, 1960. Series: al-Kitab al-Dhahabi) al-Ziham (Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 1969)
The stories in these collections were republished with additional stories in the following:
Halawatal-Ruh, (Cairo: Akhbar al-Yawm, 1971. Series: Kitab al-Yawm)
Mutaradat Muntasafal-Layl (Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1973. Series: Iqra')
Akhbaral- 'Unqud (Cairo: Dar Akhbar al-Yawm, 1974. Series: Kitab al-Yawm)
al-Umm wa-I- Wahsh (Cairo: Dar Majid li-l-Thaqafa, 1982)
Later Collections:
al-Karasi al-Musiqiyya (Cairo: G. E. B. 0., 1990)
Ma Ba'ada al-Majmu'at ( in Vol.2 of Collected Works, G.E. B. 0., 1993)
Lyrical Prose
al-Masa' al-Akhir (Cairo: Dar al-Ma' arif, 1963) First published in al-Adib in Beirut, 1946-52. Republished as vol.5 of complete works in Cairo in 1995 by the General Egyptian Book Organization.
Studies
Dirasat Adabiyya (Cairo: Maktabat al-Nahda, 1964)
Dirasat if al-A dab al- 'Arabi al-Mu 'asir (Cairo: Mu' assassat al-Ta' alif wa-l-Nashr, 1964)
Dirasat fi al-Hubb (Cairo: Dar al-Hilal, 1966)
Republished as al-H ubb wa-I-S adaqat if al-Turath al- 'Arabi wa-I-Dirasat al Mu 'is ira (Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1976 and 1992)
Dirasat if aI-Riwaya wa-I-Qissat al- Qas ira (Cairo: Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, 1967)
al-La-Ma' qul if al-A dab al-Mu 'asir (Cairo: Dar al-Katib al-'Arabi, 1969)
al-Riwayat al-Misriyya al-Mu'asira (Cairo: Dar al-Hilal, 1973)
al-Qissatal-Qasira Nazari-an wa-Tatbiq-an (Cairo: Dar al-Hilal, 1977)
Namathij min al-Riwayat al-Misriyya (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1977)
al-Qissat wa-I-Mujtama' (Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1977. Series: Kitabu-ka)
Shakwa al-Muwazzaf al-Fasih. (Cairo: Dar al-Hilal, 1980)
Dirasat fi al-Qissat al- Qasira (Damascus: Dar Talas, 1980)
al-Riwa'iyyun al-Thalatha (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1980)
Rihlati ma' al-Qira'a (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1982)
Ma' al-Qissat al-Qasira (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1985)
Sindbad fi 'Uman (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1986)
Rihlati ma' al-Riwaya (Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1986)
Qisas min al-Turath al- 'Umani (Muscat: Maktabat Majjan, 1987)
Ma' al-Drama (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1989)
Aja'ib al-Hind li-Barzaq Ibn Shahriyar (London: Riad al-Rayyes Books 1990)
Fi al-Adab al- 'Umani al-H adith (London: Riad al-Rayyes Books, 1990)
Fi Rubu' 'Uman (London: Riad al-Rayyes Books, 1990)
A' alam min 'Uman (London: Riad al-Rayyes Books, 1990)
Malamih 'Umaniyya (London; Riad al-Rayyes Books, 1990) Abhath al-Multa qa al-Thani l-il -Kitabat al-Qisasiyya wal-Riwa'iyya (1992) Ma' al-Riwaya (Cairo; G.E. B. 0., 1994) Udaba' wa Mufakkirun (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1994. Vol.4 of collected works) Edited and Introduced;
Sab 'un Shama 'a fi Hayat Yahia Haqqi (Cairo; G.E. B.0., 1975)
al-Laylat al-Thaniyya ba 'da al-Alf: mukhtarat min al-qissat al-nisa'iyya (Cairo: G.E. B. 0., 1976)
Translations
Oedipus by the Latin writer Seneca, edited by Ted Hughes Kuwait; Wizarat al I-ilam, 1976. Series: al-Masrah al-' Alami)
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell (Kuwait; Wizarat al-I'ilam, 1988. Series; al-Masrah al-'Alami)
Berkeley Square by John Balderston (Kuwait; Wizarat al-I'lam, 1990. Series; al Masrah al-'Alami)
In Translation
The short story al-Ziham was included in;
� Nachrichten aus Agypten (Berlin; Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des DAAD, 1977. Series: LCB-Editionen, no.47)
� Egyptian Short Stories selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies (Washington D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1978)
� Arabic Short Stories, 1945-65, edited by Mahmoud Manzalaoui (Cairo; American University in Cairo Press, 1968.3rd ed. 1989)
Blood Feud (London; Heinemann, 1984) (Cairo; American University in Cairo Press, 1991). Short stories selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
His short story le Dernier Grain de Ia Grappe was included in Raoul and Laura Makarius (eds.) Anthologie de la Litterature Arabe Contemporaine, vol.1 (Paris; Editions du Seuil, 1964)
His short story The Man and the Farm was included in Modern Arabic Short Stories selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1967) (London; Heinemann 1976) (Washington D. C.; Three Continents Press, 1981)
His short story Glimpses from the Life of Maugoud Abdul Maugoud and Two Postscripts was included in Arabic Short Stories selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies (London, Melbourne and New York; Quartet, 1983)
