Somaya Yehia Ramadan | |
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سمية رمضان | |
Born | 1951 |
Died | (aged 73) |
Alma mater | Cairo University, Trinity College, Dublin |
Notable work | Leaves of Narcissus |
Awards | Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature |
Somaya Yehia Ramadan (Arabic: سمية رمضان, romanized: Sumayyah Ramaḍān; 1951 - 20 August 2024) was an Egyptian academic, translator and writer. She is mainly known for her 2001 novel Awraq Al-Nargis, published in English as Leaves of Narcissus that won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and for her Arabic translation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.