The Saraswa Epic

Poetry A Morning Party, Ahmed Sabry Abul-Futuh, Al-Taher Sharkawi, Mahmoud El-Wardani, Mohamed Abdel-Nabi, The Saraswa Epic

Sawiris Awards Committee Expresses Disappointment in Field of Short Stories

January 11, 2011

The sixth annual Sawiris Cultural Awards were announced this week, with the big 100,000LE “senior writer” prize going to Ahmed Sabry Abul-Futuh for his celebrated novel The Saraswa Epic: Genesis, Volume 1.

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