Ibrahim Abdel Meguid is an award-winning Egyptian author and novelist. He was born on the 2^nd December 1946 in Alexandria, Egypt.

He attended Alexandria University in 1973 where he achieved a BA in Philosophy. Later in 1975, he left Alexandria to live in Cairo, where he published his first novel, and soon took up the position of Consult of Cultural Matters at the Popular Culture council.  

Throughout his literary career, he has combined critical and creative writing.

He received the Egyptian state prize for Literature and the Sawiris Prize for his novel In Every Week there is a Friday (2009) His novel The Other Place was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and was published by AUC Press in 1997.

He is a successful author with 14 novels, five short story collections, as well as articles he has written on literature and politics. Some of his best-known work includes, No One Sleeps in Alexandria, Birds of Amber and The Other Place. All three of these books have been translated in both English and French.

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https://hoopoefiction.com/hoopoe-author/ibrahim-abdel-meguid/