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The Men Who Swallowed the Sun

Hamdi Abu Golayyel

A Dog with No Tail

Arabic

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A Novel

Thieves in Retirement

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Poetry

Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

Biography or Memoir

Children's Book

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Literary Theory and Criticism

Religion and Spirituality

Business and Finance

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Political, Cultural, and Social History

Hamdi Abu Golayyel (Arabic: حمدي أبوجليل; 1968 – 12 June 2023) was an Egyptian writer. The author of several novels and collections of short stories, he is known as one of the new voices in Egyptian fiction. Among other awards, he won the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2022. The literary magazine ArabLit called him a "chronicler of the lives of Egypt’s marginalized and working-class." 

 Life and career 
Abu Golayyel was born in 1968 in a Bedouin village in the Fayoum region. H...

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