Mansoura Ez-Eldin

Mansoura Ez-Eldin is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and short story writer, born in 1976. She is the author of six novels and three short story collections and her works have been translated into more than ten languages. In 2010, she was the youngest writer to be shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for her novel Beyond Paradise. The Orchards of Basra was longlisted for IPAF in 2022.