Salwa Bakr
In a country famed for its rich modern literary tradition, Salwa Bakr has become one of Egypt’s most respected novelists and short-story writers. Born in Cairo in 1949, Ms. Bakr took degrees in busine... Read more
In a country famed for its rich modern literary tradition, Salwa Bakr has become one of Egypt’s most respected novelists and short-story writers. Born in Cairo in 1949, Ms. Bakr took degrees in business management and literary criticism before embarking on a career in journalism. She has published three collections of short stories and two novels. Her satirical novel, “The Golden Chariot” (1991), is set within the walls of a women’s prison located outside Cairo during the Nasser era. It focuses on a member of the Alexandrian aristocracy imprisoned for murder. It is a novel of narrative sophistication, which was widely praised in its original Arabic publication and has since been translated into English and other European languages.