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Sawiris 2020 · Shortlist
بيت القبطية · Bayt al-qibtiyya
Ashraf El-Ashmawi · 53 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:An investigating magistrate looking into a few crimes in a small village in northern Upper Egypt is faced with worse: motiveless killings, suspicious suicides and fields and houses that burn for no clear reason.
Sawiris 2014 · Winner
كتاب الأمان · Kitab al-aman
Novel · 288 pages
AI-generated summary:Khaled Ma'moun, who writes up interrogations, sets out to learn the truth about Mustafa Ismail, a former law professor known as the most skilful thief of the 1990s, from two versions of a book about him.
Sawiris 2008 · Winner
دق الطبول · Daqq al-tubul
Mohamed El-Bisatie · 68 when first published
Novel · 124 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:When the citizens of a small Gulf emirate all fly to France to cheer on their football team, only the foreign workers stay behind, among them an Egyptian to whom a fellow Egyptian woman confides her secret.
Sawiris 2006 · Winner
قمر على سمرقند · Qamar 'ala Samarqand
Mohamed Mansi Qandil · 58 when first published
Novel · 414 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A young Egyptian doctor named Ali travels to Samarqand in search of an old secret and falls in with Nur Allah, a legendary man who drives his car and seems to steer his fate as well.