أحمد عبد اللطيف
Born 1978 · Egypt
IPAF 2026 · Shortlist
Asl al-anwa'
Title translated by AI:“The Origin of Species”
Ahmad Abdulatif · 47 when first published
Novel · 258 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:In a Cairo close to vanishing, people begin to lose their hair, then their fingers and toes, along with love and anger, while the dead escape their demolished tombs and ghosts walk beside the living.
Sawiris 2025 · Winner
'Usur Daniyal fi madinat al-khuyut
Title translated by AI:“The Ages of Daniel in the City of Threads”
Ahmad Abdulatif · 44 when first published
Novel · 279 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:In a city under a heavy punishment, people have turned into puppets who still fear being killed, losing their children and drowning in endless rain, while Daniel sits writing page after page.
Sawiris 2020 · Shortlist
Hisn al-turab
Title translated by AI:“The Fortress of Dust”
Ahmad Abdulatif · 39 when first published
Novel · 265 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:Through the de Molina family, the story of Spain's Moriscos, forced to choose between giving up their faith and exile, then tortured, expelled as Arabs and Muslims, and shunned in their new land as Spanish Christians.