Adel Esmat

Adel Esmat (; born 1959) is an Egyptian novelist. He published a collection of short stories named Fragments and nine novels including Days of the Blue Windows, published in 2009, which was awarded the State Prize for Incentive for Novels in 2011. Whereas, his novel Tales of Yusuf Tadrus, which was published in 2015, won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2016 and later the American University of Cairo published an English translation of the novel.

Education and career Adel Esmat is a novelist who was born in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt in 1959. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Ain Shams in 1984. Esmat published his first novel Obsession of Death in 1995; and now he has published nine novels including Stable Life, The Naked Man, People and Places, and The Crow's Sound.

Works

Novels

Obsession of Death (Original title: Hages Al Mawt), 1995 The Naked Man (Original title: Rajulun A’ari), 1998 Stable Life (Original title: Hayat Mustaqera), 2004 Days of the Blue Windows (Original title: Ayam Al-nawafath Al-zarqaa), 2009 People and Places (Original title: Nass w Amaken), 2010 The Tales of Yusuf Tadrus (Original title: Hikayat Yusuf Tadrus), 2015 Reem’s Conditions (Original title: Halatu Reem), 2017 The Crow’s Sound (Original title: Sawt Al Ghurab), 2017 The Commandments (Original title: Al Wasaya), 2018

Short stories

Fragments (Original title: Qasasat), 2015

Awards and honors

2011: Won the State Encouragement Award for his novel The Days of the Blue Window 2016: Won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for his novel Tales of Yusuf Tadrus and was translated into English 2019: His novel The Commandments won the Sawiris Award and was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.