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Mahmoud El-Wardani

محمود الورداني

Born 1950 · Egypt

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    Sawiris 2013 · Winner

    بيت النار

    Bayt al-nar

    Title translated by AI:“The House of Fire”

    Mahmoud El-Wardani · 61 when first published

    Novel · 350 pages

    AI-generated summary:In Cairo in the 1960s, a boy raised with his sister by their young widowed mother starts working, and goes from one job to the next as he grows up.