The Ages of Daniel in the City of Threads , 2023 Longlist
Ahmad Abdulatif is an Egyptian novelist, translator, journalist and researcher, born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1978 and currently living in Madrid, Spain. He has a BA in Spanish Language and Literature, an MA in Arabic Literature, and is preparing his doctoral thesis on the Arabic novel for the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has published eight novels. His first, The Keymaker (2010), won the 2011 Egyptian State Encouragement Prize; his third, The Book of the Sculptor (2013), won the 2015 Sawiris Cultural Award; and his fifth, TheEarthen Fortress, was IPAF-longlisted in 2018, translated into Spanish in 2019, and shortlisted for the 2020 Sawiris Cultural Award. His novelThe Ages of Daniel in the City of Threads (2022) was also IPAF-longlisted in 2023. Abdulatif has written and translated for the cultural press since 2003, and has translated more than thirty books from Spanish into Arabic. In 2013, he won the Egyptian National Centre for Translation Award for his translation of Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand by Gioconda Belli.
