Fatima Naoot

She worked in the field of engineering for ten years before deciding to devote all her time to literature as a Journalist, and translator. She has published 38 books so far. Her poetic collection "A Bottle of Glue" won the first prize of "Arabic Poetry" competition in Hong Kong in 2006, and has been published in Chinese and English in Jan.2007. She was selected to win the “Gibran Khalil Gibran international Prize from Sydney Australia in 2014, for the humanity threads in her poems and articles. She has attended many international poetic festivals and committees in Middle East, Europe, and Latin America She writes 4 constant weekly columns in Arabicnews papers and magazinea in Egypt and middle east. Some of her works are the issue of some academic studies and degrees. Her poem “Te Blind” is a part of American curriculum. And her poetry has been translated to several international languages. She is a member of Egypt Writers' Union, International Pen Club, the Egyptian Syndicate of engineers, and the Syndicate of Egyptian Journalists. 

Selected Publications

Poetry
Finger’s Pat, 2001
One Centimeter Away From the Ground, 2002
A Longitudinal Section in the Memory, 2003
Upon a Woman’s Palm,  2004
A Head Split with an Ax, 200
Pockets Weighed with Stones, 2005
The Temple of Roses, 2007
A Bottle of Glue, 2008

Translations
A Head Split with an Ax, Egypt, 2004 (American and Britain collection of poetry translated into Arabic)
Pockets Weighed with Stones, Egypt, 2005 (A book on Virginia Woolf  including  an Arabic translation of her novella An Un-written Novel)
Killing Rabbits (translated into Arabic), Egypt, 2005 (A collection of short stories by John Ravenscroft translated into Arabic)

Cultural criticsm
Writing with Chalk (Essays about subjects including language, translation, liberty, arts and architecture)

Anthology
Hammurabi’s Sorrows, Egypt, 2003

Links
Fatima Naoot's homepage



[ Fatima Naoot took part in the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam 2007.
This text was written on that occasion.]