Nura Amin, Date of Birth

Nura Amin

Egyptian writer and choreographer

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1970

Profession: writer, translator, choreographer, theater director, film critic, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Nura Amin (born 4 July 1970) is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and translator. A native of Cairo, Amin received her bachelor's degree in French from Cairo University in 1992, and has since worked as a teaching assistant at the Academy of Arts, in the Center for Languages and Translation.
She has published a number of translations into Arabic from English and French.
As a writer, she received the short-story prize from the General Authority for Culture Palaces in 1996; three years later she won the prize for the best novel by a writer under the age of forty which was offered by the Andalusiya Foundation for Culture and Arts.
Amin has also been active as a film, theater, and literary critic for Al Ahali and for al-Hilal.