Somaya Yehia Ramadan is a short-story writer, translator, cultural and literary critic. She received her B.A. from the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, and her Ph.D. in 1983 from Trinity College, Dublin.
After two successful collections of short story- "Khashab wa Nohass" (Brass and Wood), in 1995 and "Manazel el-Kamar" (Phases of the Moon) in 1999- Somaya Ramadan published her first novel Awraq Al-Nargis (The Narcissus Leaves) in 2001.
This pseudo-autobiographical narrative, set between Egypt and Ireland won her not just instant acclaim within Egyptian literary circles but the AUC Naguib Mahfouz Literary Award as well in December 2001.
In their citation to that year's award the judges...
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سمية رمضان (ولدت بالقاهرة سنة 1951) هي أكاديمية ومترجمة وكاتبة مصرية. حصلت على جائزة نجيب محفوظ للرواية العربية سنة 2001. ولدت سمية رمضان في القاهرة سنة 1951، ودرست اللغة الإنجليزية بجامعة القاهرة، ثم حصلت على درجة الدكتوراه في اللغة الإنجليزية من ترينيتي كوليج في دبلن
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