Bahaa Taher, an acclaimed Egyptian novelist, and short-story writer passed away at the age of 87. He was born in Cairo in 1935, and he penned a number of highly regarded books, some of which were made into TV dramas.
The author became engaged in left-wing literary groups in the middle of the 1970s, and the administration of President Anwar Sadat forbade him from publishing. Taher’s book The Oasis of Sunset earned him the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008.
#Egypt : Novelist Bahaa Taher has died at age of 87 – he won the first Booker Prize for Arabic fiction – he was also politically active, in particular against the rule of Mubarak #بهاء_طاهر #مِصر pic.twitter.com/Se8TpgOhE0
— sebastian usher (@sebusher) October 27, 2022
