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About Khairy Shalaby
- Khairy Shalaby (???? ????) (January 31, 1938 â 9 September 2011) was an Egyptian novelist and writer.
- He wrote some 70 books, including twenty novels, critical studies, historical tales, plays and short story collections.
- Khairy is widely regarded as having written novels âof the Egyptian street.âAdam Talib, who translated The Hashish Waiter, said of Shalabyâs prose: "The most enjoyableâand the most difficultâthing about Khairyâs prose is the way he mixes language levels (registers) within a single sentence or paragraph.
- Khairy doesnât go in for the prophetic or philosophical or pompous-sounding stuffâŚand he really seems to be having a lot of fun when he writes.
- I guess what Iâm trying to say is that Khairy doesnât spend a lot of time looking up from the story.
- He doesnât look over his shoulder like some writers and he doesnât spend too much energy worrying about what âthe criticsâ will say.
- I havenât asked him but Iâm fairly certain heâs never spent a second thinking about how this might sound when itâs translated.
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- In many ways, Arabic novels are still having a conversation with the culture at largeâtheyâre very engagedâand itâs reflected in this style of novel.
- Khairy Shalaby is an important artist and also a very good critic, but he doesnât go in for that sort of thing.
- Like Yusuf al-Qaâeed, Khairy tries to show that novels donât have to be explicitly intellectual, or about intellectuals, to handle important political and social questions in a very sophisticated way."
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