Bahaa Taher

Bahaa Taher ( born 1935 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian writer and translator.

Life

Taher completed his literary studies at the University of Cairo. He then worked for Radio 2, the cultural channel of the Egyptian Radio. In 1964 he published his first short story. He was as a teenager, a follower of the left ideas and supported the development program of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for his country. That Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat ended this policy, is in his eyes a disaster for Egypt. After a write prohibition was imposed on him in 1975 and he had lost his job in broadcasting, he left the country in 1981. He tried to work as a translator in various countries of Asia and Africa. In the 1980s and 1990s, he lived in Switzerland and worked in Geneva at the United Nations as a translator. During these years his first novels were published in Arabic.

Meanwhile, lives and Taher is back in Egypt. He is one of the founders of the opposition Kifajabewegung, the early one end of the Mubarakregimes demanded and thus a foundation for the breaks by the revolution in Egypt was 2011.

Publications

• Schark to - naġil ( de: East of palms), Dar al - Mustaqbal al-' arabi, Cairo in 1985, before that appeared in 1983 in the daily newspaper Sabah al - Khayr in sequels.
• Qalat Duha, Dar al -Hilal, Cairo 1985. Previously, in the same year published in the newspaper al - Musawwir in sequels.
• Galati Safiya wa ʾ d- dair, 1991 German by Doris Kilias: Aunt Safija and the monastery, Roman Egypt. Lenos Verlag, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-85787-332-9.

• German by Regina Karachouli: The Oasis, Roman. Union Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-293-00433-7.

Prizes and awards

• 2000: Premio Giuseppe Acerbi litterario, Italy
• 2008: International Prize for Arabic Fiction