Amr El Adly

Al-Adly has won many awards including the State incentive Award for his novel "The visit" in 2015. In the same year, he won the Sawiris Cultural Award for his story collection "the Story of Yusuf Idris." His novel "My Name Is Fatima" also was longlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2019. Since 2013, El Adly has been organizing workshops for creative writing, including ‘Dar Ishraq’ workshop for creative writing, ‘Toya’ workshop and others.

Amr El Adly (Arabic: عمرو العادلي) is an Egyptian writer and novelist who was born in 1970. He is a member of Egypt writers Union. El Adly  has published five-story collections, one poetry collection, and eight novels including ‘The Lamp and the Bottle’ and ‘My Name Is Fatima’ which were nominated for Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Amr El Adly was born in Cairo on December 9, 1970. He graduated from the Department of Sociology at Ain Shams University. He is a member of the Egypt writers Union. His writing career started in 2008, when he published his first story collection "Black Bread." El Adly was influenced by ‘Art of Poetry’ by Aristotle and by ‘The Decameron’ by Giovanni Boccaccio. In 2011, he succeeded to publish his first novel which is ‘Seducing Yusuf.’ However, "the Light and the Bottle" the novel which was longlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2018, is the only novel he published for children and young people.