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Edwar al-Kharrat is a renowned Egyptian novelist and playwright. He was born on 16 March 1926 in Alexandria, Egypt. He is best known for his novels, plays, and short stories. He is considered one of the most important figures in modern Arabic literature. Al-Kharrat studied at the University of Alexandria and graduated with a degree in law in 1949. He then worked as a lawyer for a few years before turning to writing full-time. He has written several novels, plays, and short stories, including the novel Rama and the Dragon (1962), which won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003. Al-Kharrat has been awarded numerous awards and honors, including the State Prize for Literature in Egypt in 1965, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Egypt in 1975, and the Order of Merit of the Arab Republic of Egypt in 1985. He was also awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2008. As of 2021, Edwar al-Kharrat's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Born 16 March, 1926
Birthday 16 March
Birthplace Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt
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2015

Al-Kharrat has also translated a number of foreign literary works into Arabic, including Tolstoy's War and Peace. He has won several prestigious literary awards including the Sultan al-Owais Prize and the Naguib Mahfouz Medal. He was invited to St Antony's College, Oxford in 1979 as a visiting scholar and has participated in numerous cultural festivals, including the London Literature Festival in 1999. He died on 1 December 2015, aged 89.

1958

As a writer, his first book was a collection of short stories called High Walls, published in 1958/59. Two more volumes of stories came out in the 1970s. Also in 1979, his first novel Rama and the Dragon was published to widespread critical acclaim. A "daringly experimental" work, Rama has been called "a breakthrough for the Arab novel". Al-Kharrat himself described the novel as "untranslatable", although an English translation was completed by Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden and published by the AUC Press in 2002 after winning the 1999 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. The Arab Writers Union ranked Rama at 8th in its list of the 100 best Arabic novels.

1948

He was born in Alexandria to a Coptic Christian family. He studied law at Alexandria University and worked briefly in banking and insurance. He was also actively engaged in left-wing politics and spent two years in jail from 1948 to 1950. He moved to Cairo in the mid-1950s where he worked for a time as a translator at the Romanian embassy.

1926

Edwar al-Kharrat (Arabic: إدوار الخراط‎; 16 March 1926 – 1 December 2015) was an Egyptian novelist, writer and critic.

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