فردوس

He is Mohamed Ibrahim El-Desouky El-Bsati, a contemporary Egyptian writer belonging to the sixties generation. He was born in 1937 in the town of El-Gamalia, overlooking Manzala Lake, Dakahlia Governorate. He obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in 1960. He worked as general manager of the Central Auditing Organization, and editor-in-chief of the literary series "Voices" issued in Cairo by the General Authority for Cultural Palaces. Most of his works revolve around the countryside through the minute details of the lives of his marginalized heroes who do not care about the influence of power or the changes in the world around them. Al-Basati published his first story in 1962, after he won the first prize in the story from the Story Club in Egypt. Al-Busati has about twenty works between novels and short story collections from his novels: “The Merchant and the Debater” (1976) “The Glass Café” (1978) “The Hard Days” (1978) “Houses Behind the Trees” (1993) “The Noise of the Lake” (1994) “Voices of the Lake” (1994) The Night (1998) “The Train Comes” (1999) “Other Nights” (2000) “Al Khalidiya” “Hunger”, which was nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in its second session. He has several collections of short stories, including: “The Old and Young” (1968) “Talk from the Third Floor” (1970) “Dreams of Short-Aged Men” (1979) “This Is What It Was” (1987) “The Curve of the River” (1990) “A weak light that does not He reveals something" (1993) "The Maghreb Hour" (1996)