Amr El Adly

Amr El Adly (Arabic:عمرو العادلي) is an Egyptian writer and novelist who was born in 1970. He is a member of Egypt writers Union. El Adly has published five-story collections, one poetry collection, and eight novels including ‘The Lamp and the Bottle’ and ‘My Name Is Fatima’ which were nominated for Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He is a member of the Egypt writers Union. In 2011, he succeeded to publish his first novel which is ‘Seducing Yusuf.’ However, "the Light and the Bottle" the novel which was longlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2018, is the only novel he published for children and young people.

El Adly's writing style, particularly in writing stories, does not address specific audience. He tries through his writings to document his feeling and make all readers of different levels understand and feel what he felt.

Al-Adly has won many awards including the State incentive Award for his novel "The visit" in 2015. In the same year, he won the Sawiris Cultural Award for his story collection "the Story of Yusuf Idris." His novel "My Name Is Fatima" also was longlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2019. Since 2013, El Adly has been organizing workshops for creative writing, including ‘Dar Ishraq’ workshop for creative writing, ‘Toya’ workshop and others.

Works

Story collections

Black Bread (Original title: Khobz Asswad), 2008 Letters for the Sky (Original title: Jawabat Lel Sama), 2008 Story of Yusuf Idris (Original title: Qisat Yusuf Idris), 2012 Franshi World (Original title: A’alam Franshi), 2016 Wow, 2017

Poetry collections

Good Morning To Me (Original title: Sabah Lkhair Ya Ana), 2014

Novels

Seducing Yusuf (Original title: Eghwa’a Yusuf), 2011 Schindler Catalogue (Original title: Katalough Schindler), 2013 The Visit (Original title: Azyara), 2014 The Unholy Trip of The Family (Original title: Rihlt Alaela Ghir El-mokadasa), 2015 My Name Is Fatima (Original title: Ismi Fatima), 2017 The Lamp and the Bottle (Original title: Al Misbah wa Zojaja), 2017 Before Evening (Original title: Qabla Al Masa’a), 2018 Ghassan Kanafani’s Men (Original title: Rijal Ghassan Kanafani), 2020

Awards

2015: he won the State Incentive Award for his novel ‘The Visit’. 2016: he won the Sawiris Cultural Award- Senior Writers Section for his story collection ‘The story of Yusuf Idris’. 2018: he won the Egyptian Writers Union Award for his novel for his novel ‘The Unholy Trip of The Family’ 2018: he was nominated for Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Children's Literature for his novel ‘The Lamp and The Bottle’ 2019: he was nominated for Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Children's Literature for his novel ‘My name Is Fatima’