Adel Esmat
Adel Esmat (Arabic:) is an Egyptian novelist who was born in 1959. 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. Then, he had a second degree in Library Science from the University of Tanta in 1986. Now, he works as a library specialist in the Egyptian Ministry of Education. 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". In 2011, Esmat received the 2016 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature by an award ceremony held at the American University of Cairo for his novel  Tales of Yusuf Tadrus, which was translated into English. While his novel "The Commandments" was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2019, and his novel "The Days of the Blue Windows" was awarded the 2011 State Prize for Incentive for the Novel. In 2015, he published his first collection of short stories entitled "Fragments".