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Reda El-Bahat

رضا البهات

Egypt

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    Sawiris 2015 · Winner

    ساعة رملية تعمل بالكهرباء

    Sa'a ramliyya ta'mal bi-al-kahraba'

    Title translated by AI:“An Hourglass That Runs on Electricity”

    Reda El-Bahat

    Novel · 215 pages

    AI-generated summary:A writer has spent twenty years trying in vain to write a novel; sunk in his solitude, he discovers that turning forty is only a rehearsal for what comes after, and that society has no need of him.