Albert Cossery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Cossery

Egyptian-born French writer

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1913

Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

Date of Death: 22-Jun-2008

Profession: screenwriter, writer, novelist

Nationality: Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer.
Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his home country of Egypt or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country.
He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile".
His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society. Albert Cossery was well known in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he lived in the same hotel, Hotel La Louisiane, since 1945.