Muhammad Abdallah Muthanna
Muhammad Abdallah Muthanna (born 1945 or 1947) is a Yemeni novelist, playwright and short story writer.[1] He was born in Hudaida and was educated in Cairo. In the 1970s, he was jailed several times by the authorities for his activities as a political dissident. He has worked in journalism as well as in government.[2] He is a prolific writer of fiction and drama and is well-known for his short stories, which have been translated into English and Italian. His first collection of stories, entitled Fi giawf al-layl (In the Heart of the Night), came out in 1976. Subsequent collections include Al-jabal yabtasim aydan (1978) and Rihlat al-umr (2002). In 1990, he won an Arabic short story award presented in Alexandria, Egypt.
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