The Egyptian General Book Authority, headed by Dr. Ahmed Bahi El -Din Al -Asasi, mourned the great novelist Bahaa Taher, who passed away this evening at the age of 87.
“The Egyptian and Arab culture has lost today one of the cornerstones of Arabic literature, which enriched the Arab Library with its inventiveness,” the authority declared in its statement.
“The commission explained that Bahaa Taher’s works were influenced by the political and social circumstances that Egypt experienced during the Seni period, and his writings varied between the short story and the novel in addition to translating a number of novels of foreign literature into Arabic. Due to his ability and mastery of the English language that he gained from his travels around the world, which affected his writings on combining the poetic and the literary, this had a significant impact on his writings on combining the p
Bahaa Taher is a novelist, storyteller, and translator who was born in 1935 and is a member of the 1960s generation. He worked for the UN as a translator in Geneva between 1981 and 1995.
Bahaa got the Italian Giuseppe Akirbi Award for the two aunts Safia and the monastery in 2000, the State Appreciation Award in Arts in 1998, and the Italian Alziator Award for love in exile in 2008.
The Arab Library enhanced the works of the late novelist Bahaa Taher, which is mourned by the General Book Authority.
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