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Somaya Ramadan

Somaya Yehia Ramadan
سمية رمضان
Born1951 (1951)
Died (aged 73)
Alma materCairo University, Trinity College, Dublin
Notable workLeaves of Narcissus
AwardsNaguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

Somaya Yehia Ramadan (Arabic: سمية رمضان, romanizedSumayyah 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.


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