Radwa Ashour

Radwa Ashour (26 May 1946 – 30 November 2014) was an Egyptian novelist.^[1]

Life

Ashour was born in El-Manial. She graduated from Cairo University with a BA in 1967, and MA. in 1972, and from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Ph.D. in African American Literature in 1975.^[2] Her dissertation was titled: The search for a Black poetics: a study of Afro-American critical writings.^[3] She taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti in 1970. She gave birth to her son, poet Tamim al-Barghouti, in 1977.

She won the 2007 Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature.^[4] She died on 30 November 2014.^[5]

Works

• The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Student in America, 1983
• Warm Stone, 1985
• Khadija and Sawsan, 1989
• I Saw the Date Palms, short stories, 1989
• Siraj. Translated by Barbara Romaine. University of Texas Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-292-71752-7. 
• Granada: a novel. Translated William Granara. Syracuse University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8156-0765-6. 
• Apparitions. 1998.  Specters, Translated Barbara Romaine, Interlink Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-56656-832-6^[6]
• 2010, الطنطوريه
• Blue Lorries. Translated by Barbara Romaine. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing. 2014. ISBN 978-99921-94-48-5. 

As editor

• Encyclopaedia of Arab Women Writers, 1873–1999. American University in Cairo Press. 2008. ISBN 978-977-416-146-9. 

References

External links

• Githa Hariharan in Conversation with Radwa Ashour and Ahdaf Souief, Newsclick, 6 April 2010
• "Radwa Ashour: As one long prepared", Al Ahram, Youssef Rakha, 27 January – 2 February 2000
• Guy Mannes-Abbott (10 January 2011). "Spectres, By Radwa Ashour". The Independent. 
• Writing, Teaching, Living: Egyptian Novelist Radwa Ashour, Arab Literature, March 19, 2011