Yahya Taher Abdullah
Yahya Taher Abdullah (Arabic: يحيى الطاهر عبد الله) (born in Karnak in 1938, died 1981) was an Egyptian writer.
Abdullah grew up in Upper Egypt but moved to Cairo in 1964 at the age of 28. He gained renown in literary circles for live readings of his stories, and published four novellas and five collections of short stories during his lifetime. His book The Collar and the Bracelet was adapted for the screen by the famous realist film director Khairy Bishara. Abdullah had no formal literary training, but was seen as one of the top young Egyptian writers of the 1960s. He died in a car accident in 1981.
The Collar and the Bracelet was translated by Samah Selim and published by the American University of Cairo Press in 2009. Selim won the Banipal Prize for her translation.
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