الزناتي

Ahmed El Zanati

Education:

  • Bachelor’s in Al-Alsun, German Language Department
  • Master’s in Business Administration – Victoria University, Switzerland, 2013

Literary Awards:

  • First Prize in the Novel – Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity 2013, for the novel “The Turquoise Carpet: On the Tale of Younes Al-Samman”.
  • Egyptian Cultural Palaces Authority Award for Novels 2017, for the novel “Madi”, and published the novel “The Wooden Horses Game” by Kayan Publishing, Egypt, 2019.
  • Egyptian Cultural Palaces Authority Award, First Place in Short Story 2021.

In Literary Translation:

  • “The Beautiful Book Cabinet” – Kalimat Publishing, Kuwait, 2018
  • “Hadith Al-Tawla” – Tarjuman for Translation and Publishing, Egypt, 2018
  • “Drums in the Night” – Madarek (Mazon), Saudi Arabia, 2019
  • “The Smell of Ink” – Montada Publishing, Kuwait, 2019
  • “You Are the Answer to the Question: (Hermann Hesse’s Letters to the Youth)” – Translation from German – Madarek (Mazon), Saudi Arabia, 2021
  • “Isolated Islands – From Letters and Diaries of World Writers” – Maraya Publishing, Kuwait, 2020
  • “The Life of a Girl or the Saint” – Martin Walser, translation from German – Al-Ahliyya Publishing, Jordan, 2021
  • “Jung and Hesse: The Record of Two Friendships” – Translation from German – Al-Ahliyya Publishing, Jordan, 2021
  • “The Teacher of Judgment Day” – Austrian writer Leo Perutz, translation from German – Egyptian Awards Series, 2021
  • “Thus Spoke Carl Gustav Jung (Interviews – Testimonials – Letters)” – Dar Sofia, Kuwait, 2021
  • “In One Trench – Dialogues with Books and Writers” – Madarek (Mazon), Saudi Arabia, 2022
  • “Montini” – Stefan Zweig – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2022
  • “Klein and Wagner” – Hermann Hesse – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2022
  • “Scratching the Bone of Life – Readings from Western Thought” – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2022
  • “The Rope of the Soul” – Novel by Austrian writer Leo Perutz – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2022
  • “The Art of Laziness” – Hermann Hesse – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2022
  • “The Intelligence of Flowers” – Maurice Maeterlinck – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2022
  • “Rilke, Freud, Nietzsche (An Emotional Biography)” – Lou Salomé – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2023
  • “The Question of Life” (Autobiography of Dr. Viktor Frankl) – Hayat Club Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2024
  • “The Postman” – German writer Karsten Hen – Hayat Club Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2024
  • “The Failure” – Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard – Nabo Publishing, Iraq, 2024
  • “The Simple Pleasures of Life” – Hermann Hesse – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2025

“The Confused Life of Young Törless” – Robert Musil – Hayat Publishing, Saudi Arabia, 2025

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