Amina Zaydan
Egyptian novelist and short story writer (born 1966)
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Amina Zaydan (Arabic: أمينة زيدان, romanized: Amīnah Zaydān; born 1966) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer.[1][2] She was born in 1966 in Suez and now lives in Cairo where she works as a civil servant.[3]
Zaydan is known for her strong stand on gender inequality in her writings. In 1994, her short story collection entitled It Happened Secretly won first prize in a literary competition held by Gamal al-Ghitani's Akhbar al-Adab weekly newspaper. It also won the prize for Best Short Story Collection at the Cairo International Book Fair the following year. She has since published a further volume of short stories called Fawda and several novels including The Lust of Silence. Her second novel Red Wine won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2007.[4] An English translation of Red Wine by Sally Gomaa was published by the AUC Press in 2010.[5]
Zaydan often writes about the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and its generational impact.[3]
