Albert Cossery
(1913-2008)
Egyptian-born French writer
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Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer of Levantine origin. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his home country of Egypt or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society.
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Albert Cossery 3 November 1913 Cairo, Egypt
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22 June 2008 (aged 94) Paris, France
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