born in 1988 in Cairo, Ahmed Awny is an Egyptian author and editor. After completing a degree in mechanical engineering, he studied Creative Writing at the American University in Cairo and screenwriting in Morocco. His main interests lie in social movements, political propaganda, and representations of Oriental masculinity. In 2010, he published the short story collection \u00bbQalaq Muzmin\u00ab [Chronic Anxiety], followed in 2019 by his first novel \u00bbJawa’iz lel abtal\u00ab [engl. \u00bbSome Achieve Greatness\u00ab], which was awarded the Sawiris Cultural Prize for Best Novel of the Year. He has been a Writer in Residence at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris and participated in the \u00bbInternational Literary Dialogue\u00ab, an initiative of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. Ahmed Awny currently lives in Berlin, where he is working on a book that combines biography and political analysis by exploring the fragile dynamics of brother-sister relationships in Egypt. For this work-in-progress, he was awarded a fellowship from Culture Resource [\u00bbAl-Mawred Al-Thaqafy\u00ab]. He is also part of the literary platform \u00bbWeiter Schreiben\u00ab, which supports authors from war and crisis regions. <\/p>\n\n
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