Biography
Fatima Naoot was born in Cairo in 1964. She is the author of five poetry collections, a book of criticism, and four translated anthologies. She attended Ein Al-Shams University for her undergraduate studies in architecture and worked in the field for ten years. She continued on to work full-time as a poet, writer, and translator. She has translated short stories by Virginia Woolf, a volume of American and English poetry, and a volume of short stories by John Ravenscroft. In 2016, she was sentenced to three years in prison for insulting Islam for comments she made online regarding the festival of Eid Al-Adha. She was later released.
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