| Intro | Egyptian novelist |
| Was |
Critic Writer Literary critic Educator |
| From | Egypt |
| Type |
Academia Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 26 May 1946, Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt |
| Death |
30 November 2014, Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt (aged 68 years) |
| Star sign | Gemini |
Radwa Ashour (26 May 1946 – 30 November 2014) was an Egyptian novelist.
Life
Ashour was born in El-Manial. She graduated from Cairo University with a BA in 1967, and MA. in 1972, and from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Ph.D. in African American Literature in 1975. Her dissertation was titled: The search for a Black poetics: a study of Afro-American critical writings. She taught at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She married Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti in 1970. She gave birth to her son, poet Tamim al-Barghouti, in 1977.
She won the 2007 Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature.
She died on 30 November 2014.
Works
- The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Student in America, 1983
- Warm Stone, 1985
- Khadija and Sawsan, 1989
- I Saw the Date Palms, short stories, 1989
- Specters, Translated Barbara Romaine, Interlink Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-56656-832-6
- 2010, الطنطوريه