Abdel Hakim Qasem (Arabic:عبد الحكيم قاسم alternate transliteration: Abd al-Hakim Qasim) (1934–1990) is considered one of the most significant authors inEgyptian literature during the past thirty years.[1][2]
Judith Caesar of theAmerican University of Sharjah wrote that Qasem was "relatively little-known".[3]
He was born in Al Bandara village, nearTanta. During the 1950s he moved toCairo, and began writing until the 1960s when he was imprisoned for four years, for his political associations, by theNasser government. He lived in exile inBerlin from 1974 until 1985. He then came back to Cairo, where he died in 1990. He wrote five novels, four novellas, five short story collections, and one play.
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