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Place of Birth: Mizda, Libya
About Ahmed Fagih
- Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih (Arabic: ???? ??????? ?????? ’áhmad 'Ibrahim al-faqih) (December 28, 1942 – April 30, 2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and diplomat.
- He began writing short stories at an early age publishing them in Libyan newspapers and magazines.
- He gained recognition in 1965 when his first collection of short stories There Is No Water in the Sea (Arabic: ????? ?? ??? ???) won him the highest award sponsored by the Royal Commission of Fine Arts in Libya.
- Fagih wrote more many books in of different genres, including short stories, novels, plays, essays, among them Gazelles (play), Evening Visitor (play), Gardens of the Night Trilogy (novels), The Valley of Ashes (novel), and his 12-volume epic novel Maps of the Soul, which had its first three volumes translated into English and published by DARF Publishers in UK in 2014.Fagih held several diplomatic posts representing Libya, in London, Athens, Bucharest and Cairo.
- He lived and worked between Cairo and Tripoli.
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