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Khairy Shabaly
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خيري شلبي
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Born | January 21, 1938 |
Died | September 9, 2011 |
Khairy Shalaby (خيري شلبي) (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)[1][2] was an Egyptian novelist and writer. He wrote some 70 books, including twenty novels, critical studies, historical tales, plays and short story collections.[1][3] Khairy is widely regarded as having written novels “of the Egyptian street.”[2]
Adam Talib, who translated The Hashish Waiter, said of Shalaby’s prose:
Shalaby's The Lodging House won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003.[1] The Lodging House was listed by the Arab Writers Union as one of the “top 105” books of the last century.[4] Istasia was longlisted for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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