Egypt
- Ahmed Shawki (1868–1932)
- Hafez Ibrahim (1872–1932)
- Salama Moussa (1887–1958)
- Taha Hussein (1889–1973)
- Fekry Pasha Abaza (1896–1979)
- Tawfik El Hakim (1898–1987), playwright.
- Muhammad Husayn Haykal (1909–1956)
- Abo El Seoud El Ebiary (1910–1969)
- Naguib Mahfouz, (1911–2006), novelist, short story writer and playwright awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Edmond Jabès (1912–1991)
- Tatamkulu Afrika, also connected with South Africa (1920–2002)
- Andrée Chedid (1920–2011), poet and novelist.
- Mustafa Mahmoud (1921–2009)
- Fathy Ghanem (1924–1998), novelist, journalist and editor.
- Anis Mansour (1925–2011)
- Yusuf Idris (1927–1991)
- Alifa Rifaat (1930–1996)
- Mohammad Moustafa Haddara (1930–1997)
- Samir Amin (1931– )
- Nawâl El Saadâwi (1931– ), feminist writer and activist.
- Sonallah Ibrahim (1937– )
- Abdel Rahman El Abnudi (1938– )
- Leila Ahmed (1940– )
- Gamal Al-Ghitani (1945– )
- Ahdaf Soueif (1950– )
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Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“Hieratic, slim and fair,
the tracery written here,
proclaims what’s left unsaid
in Egypt of her dead.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)