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Latifa al-Zayyat

1923 - 1996

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Latifa al-Zayyat (Arabic: لطيفة الزيات, romanized: Laṭīfah al-Zayyāt; 8 August 1923 – 10 September 1996) was an Egyptian activist and writer, most famous for her novel The Open Door, which won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Latifa al-Zayyat is the 5,089th most popular writer (down from 4,991st in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 509th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 5,089 out of 7,302. Before her are Julia Alvarez, Fernando Vallejo, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Andrea Maffei, Robert Charles Wilson, and Bertalan Szemere. After her are Michael Bishop, Manuel Machado, Erik Johan Stagnelius, Johann Gottfried Seume, Cassandra Fedele, and Kiki Dimoula.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 335. Before her are Ivor Bueb, Jim Marshall, Jean Stapleton, Somnath Sharma, Gösta Löfgren, and Oskar Fischer. After her are Hedy Schlunegger, Otar Korkia, Mother Angelica, Hassan Ali Mansur, Eduardo Lourenço, and Cesare Rubini. Among people deceased in 1996, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 249. Before her are George Kojac, Osvaldo Velloso de Barros, Léon-Étienne Duval, Sándor Gellér, Gesualdo Bufalino, and Tokiharu Abe. After her are Joonas Kokkonen, Anton Moravčík, Bohuslav Karlík, José dos Santos Lopes, Olle Åhlund, and Birgit Brüel.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 512 out of 642. Before her are Mahmoud Fayad (1925), Naima Akef (1929), Magdi Allam (1952), Maximos V Hakim (1908), Mustafa Mansour (1914), and Tiberius Claudius Balbilus (100). After her are Omar Marmoush (1999), Pope Celadion of Alexandria (100), Mahmud Taymur (1894), Essam El Hadary (1973), Theognostus of Alexandria (210), and Hesham Qandil (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 54. Before her are Penelope Delta (1874), Andrée Chedid (1920), Sotion (-250), Alifa Rifaat (1930), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), and Magdi Allam (1952). After her are Mahmud Taymur (1894), Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), Bahaa Taher (1935), Penelope Lively (1933), Karim Rashid (1960), and Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892).

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