Khairy Shalaby

Khairy Shalaby (خيري شلبي) (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011) was an Egyptian novelist and writer. He wrote some 70 books, including twenty novels, critical studies, historical tales, plays and short story collections. Khairy is widely regarded as having written novels “of the Egyptian street.” Adam Talib, who translated The Hashish Waiter, said of Shalaby’s prose: The most enjoyable—and the most difficult—quality about Khairy’s prose is the way he mixes language levels (registers) within a s...