Yahya Taher Abdullah

Yahya Taher Abdullah ( ; 1942–1981) was an Egyptian writer.

Biography Abdullah born in Karnak in 1942. He died in a car crash in the Western Desert on 9 April 1981.

In his memoirs, the translator Denys Johnson-Davies describes his acquaintanceship with Abdullah and his struggle to publish the author's short stories in English. That first collection, eventually published as part of the Heinemann Arab Authors series, was called The Mountain Of Green Tea and is still available from the AUC Press. More recently, The Collar and the Bracelet was translated by Samah Selim and published by the AUC Press in 2009. Selim won the Banipal Prize for her translation. The Collar and the Bracelet was also adapted for the screen by the famous realist film director Khairy Bishara in 1986.