Latifa al-Zayyat (Arabic: لطيفة الزيات) (8 August 1923 – 10 September 1996) was an Egyptian activist and writer, most famous for her novel The Open Door, which won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
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8 August 1923 Damietta, Egypt
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Died |
10 September 1996 (aged 73) Cairo, Egypt
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Zodiac | Leo |
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