Nawal El Saadawi made a career in literature at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Nawal El Saadawi as Egyptian feminist writer (1931–2021).
Nawal El Saadawi was born at Kafr Tahla in 1931. Her recorded nationality is the Kingdom of Egypt. She was educated at Columbia University and Cairo University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives her occupations as psychiatrist, physician writer and gynecologist.
Her affiliations include Duke University.
Her principal work is The Fall of the Imam. Books outlive their reviews, and the ones that last are seldom the ones that sold.
Her work was formally recognised with the Catalonia International Prize and honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Working from the Kingdom of Egypt shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Nawal El Saadawi died in 2021 at the age of 90. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Fall of the Imam
- Affiliated with Duke University
- Educated at Columbia University and Cairo University
- Worked as psychiatrist, physician writer and gynecologist
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