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Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Hamdi Abu Golayyel was born in 1968 into a Bedouin family in Egypt. He has published many collections of short stories as well as his three novelsl to date, including the collections Asrab al-Naml [Swarms of Bees] in 1997, and Ashya’ Matwiyya bi-‘Anaya Fa’iqa [Items Folded with Great Care] in 2000, for which he has received three literary awards. He has also published one non-fiction work.
Thieves in Retirement was his first novel, with its English translation by Marilyn Book (Syracuse University Press, 30 Nov. 2006). It was reviewed in Banipal 29, 2007.
His next novel was A Dog with No Tail, which was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2008, and translated by Robin Moger. Published by AUC Press, 15 Dec. 2009.
His latest novel to be pubilshed in English transaltion is The Men Who Swallowed the Sun, published by Hoopoe Fiction on January 3, 2022. It was the last work translated by the late Humphrey Davies.
Hamdi Abu Golayyel lives in Cairo, where he works as editorial director for a Folk and Popular Culture Studies Series for the Ministry of Culture.
Contributor's Issues
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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