Mansoura Ez-Eldin

Mansoura Ez-Eldin

Mansoura Ez-Eldin (Arabic: منصورة عزّ الدين) (born 1976) is an Egyptian novelist and journalist.

Biography

Mansoura Ez Eldin was born in Delta, Egypt in 1976.

She studied journalism at the Faculty of Media, Cairo University, graduating in 1988, and has since published short stories in various newspapers and magazines.^[1][2] She is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of the cultural weekly Akhbar Al-Adab.^[3] Her work has also appeared in international publications such as The New York Times.^[4][5][6]

She published her first collection of short stories, Shaken Light, in 2001. This was followed by two more short story collections and six novels.^[3][7] Her work has been translated into a number of languages, including an English translation of Maryam's Maze by the American University in Cairo (AUC) Press, which came out in 2007 and German and Italian translations of her work, too.

She won awards at the Cairo International Book Fair in 2014 for Towards Madness and from the Sharjah International Book Fair that same year for Emerald Mountain.^[8][9] Her second novel, Beyond Paradise, was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010, making her the youngest writer to ever reach the shortlist and the first Egyptian woman writer to do so as well.^[1] Her 2020 novel The Orchards of Basra was later longlisted for the same prize.^[10][7]

In 2009, she was selected for the Beirut39 as one of the 39 best Arab authors below the age of 40. She was also a participant in the inaugural Nadwa (writers’ workshop) held by the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in Abu Dhabi.

Select Bibliography

• Shaken Light (short story collection, 2001)
• Mariam's Maze (novel, 2004)
• Beyond Paradise (novel, 2009)
• Towards Madness (short story collection, 2013)
• Emerald Mountain (novel, 2014)
• Shadow Play (novel, 2017)
• Shelter of Absence (short story collection, 2018)
• The Orchards of Basra (novel, 2020)
• Disappearance Atlas (novel, 2021)

References

1. Salah Eldein, Ahmed (2016-12-19). "Mansoura Ez Eldin, Carrying the Mantle of Edgar Allan Poe in Egypt". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
2. "Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Mansoura Ez-Eldin". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
3. "53rd Cairo International Book Fair: The colours of the world - Culture - Al-Ahram Weekly". Ahram Online. 3 Feb 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
4. Ez-Eldin, Mansoura (2011-01-31). "Opinion | Date With a Revolution". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
5. Al-Urdin, Mohammad (20 October 2006). "The women who are far from veiled". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 18 Mar 2022.
6. "In Dialogue: Charlotte Wiedemann & Mansoura Ez-Eldin: Prospects for Women in the Arab Spring - Qantara.de". Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
7. "Mansoura Ez Eldin | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
8. "Mansoura Ez Eldin - Jury". True Story Award. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
9. "Authors | Mansoura Ezeldin". www.arabworldbooks.com. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
10. The Bookseller Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

• El Shakry, Hoda. “Jinn and Jins: Sensuous Piety as Queer Ethics.” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2023): 1–25. Web

External links

• A Review of Maryam's Maze from Banipal
• A Profile of Mansoura Ez Eldin on Qantara
• Meet the Arabic Booker Nominees
• The Bookseller