Fuad Nasr al-Din

Fouad Naserldin
Born	January 15, 1950 , Alexandria, Egypt
Died	October 21, 2016 (aged 66) Cairo, Egypt
Nationality	Egyptian
Occupation(s)	Writer and novelist

Fuad Nasr al-Din (Arabic:فؤاد نصر الدين) (January 15, 1950 – October 21, 2016) was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and critic. He has 18 publications in novels, short stories and criticism. He launched a competition in his name to support all short story works in Egypt and the Arab world. On October 21, 2016, he passed away.

Career

Fuad Nasr al-Din was an Egyptian writer, critic, and novelist who has completed nearly 18 books between novel, story, and criticism. He supervised the literature page in Tahya Misr newspaper. He was the creator of the group ''The Very Short Story in the Narrative Lab'' on July 3, 2013. By December 2014, a number of members joined the group, which reached 25,600 members who are passionate about the very short story. Thousands of short stories were published and the members’ stories were transformed from virtual to real, by printing and publishing them in books that included the names of more than one hundred twenty writers and nearly a thousand stories in eight successive groups.

Din loved literary writing since childhood, and he was encouraged to write the short story by his language teacher in the compulsory stage. Later, in the preparatory stage in 1961, his passion for reading increased in the school library, which prompted the library supervisor to give him a financial prize that he spent on buying storybooks. In high school, Din started publishing his stories in wall magazines and small local magazines, then he published his first story in Al-Jadeed magazine, entitled ''The Scream.'' He published his first collection of short stories in 1982 entitled ''A Tattoo on a Woman's Chest'' which was highly recognized. The collection was mentioned in Al-Qisa Magazine and Al-Masaa Newspaper. Four years later, Din published his second collection in 1986 entitled ''Traveling to Faraway Countries.''

Awards

Din released a prize in his name for the very short story and assured that the competition is available to all creative writers from Egypt and the Arab world, and indicated that the contestant should participate with a hundred short stories. Din added that the aim of the competition is to encourage creative people and the growth of the creativity movement in the field of the very short story. He offered financial prizes to the winners, as well as printing five winning works of the first place winners.

Works

Some of his works include the following:

• Foot Incision (original title: Shaq Qadam), 2013
• Pile of Salt (original title: Kawm al- Maleh), 2009
• The Foxes (original title: Al- Thaalib), 2009
• The Seagull Does Not Like the Sea (original title: Al- Nawras La Yaashaq al- Bahr), 2006
• The Godmother (original title: Al- Arraba), 1995
• Al- Huwaiti, 1993

Critical Works

• Critical Reviews of the Saudi Story, 1993
• The Arrow and the Path (original title: Al- Sahm Wa al- Mismar), 1990