Telegram: The Fall of the Iman: About the Author

Book Info

978-1-84659-062-7
Fiction
July 2009
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
200 pages
£7.99

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• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Book Info
• Excerpts
• Reviews

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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi is an internationally renowned Egyptian writer and feminist. She holds honorary doctorates from the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso.

Her many prizes and awards include the Great Minds of the Twentieth Century Prize, awarded by the American Biographical Institute in 2003, the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe and the Premi Internacional Catalunya in 2004.

Several of her novels have been translated into English, including Two Women in One, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor and Love in the Kingdom of Oil (all Saqi).

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Reviews

'El-Saadawi writes beautifully and in abundant and evocative physical detail of an Egypt that remains closely tied to the land and to a way of life that in many respects has not changed for centuries.'
Publishers Weekly