Nagwa Shaaban
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- Writer
- translator
Nagwa Shaaban | |
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| Born | 6 August 1959 Damietta, Egypt |
| Died | 30 August 2019 (aged 60) |
| Alma mater | Cairo University |
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Nagwa Shaaban (6 August 1959 – 30 August 2019) was an Egyptian writer of novels and translator. She worked as a cultural officer and translator of English articles into Arabic for Middle East News Agency. Shaaban authored three novels, earning the Sharjah Girls' Clubs Awards for the 1995 work Al-Ghar and the State Encouragement Award from the Ministry of Culture of Egypt in 2004 for Nawat Al-Karam published two years earlier.
She was born in Damietta, Egypt.[1] Shaaban was a graduate of the Faculty of Media, Cairo University with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[1][2] She went on to obtain a diploma from the International Labour Organization.and got employment as a cultural officer for the Middle East News Agency (MENA).[1] Shaaban also translated into Arabic from English several artistic, cultural, political and psychological articles for the MENA,[2] from multiple English-language newspapers such as The Times in the United Kingdom.[3] She conducted presentations of recently released books.[3] Shaaban also finished two research papers on plastic art in the United States,[2][4] a topic she had an interest in and one of those papers influenced Shahla Al-Ajili to write the novel Nawat Al-Karam. She wrote critical reviews on the works of Egyptian novelists.[1]
In 1995, Shaaban authored the early short stories collection The Labyrinths as her first literary work.[2][5] Three years later,[4] she authored and published her first novel Al-Ghar that explored family roots and the practice of slave smuggling in spite of Isma'il Pasha attempting to abolish the practice.[2][6] The novel earned Shaaban the Sharjah Girls' Clubs Award.[7] She wrote her second novel, Nawat Al-Karam, which was based on history and first published by the Cairo-based Merit Publishing House in 2002;[4][5][6] she had completed it on 15 May 2001.[7] Shaaban was named the winner of the State Encouragement Award by the Ministry of Culture of Egypt in 2004 for her work on the novel.[1][4] Her final novel, Al-Mursi,[5] was published by The New Culture House in 2008.[1] She had ceased her literary working in the final years of her life.[4]
