30 Published BooksMohamed Mansi Qandil
Mohamed Mansi Qandil (Arabic: محمد المنسي قنديل) was born in al-Mahalla al-Kubra, Egypt in 1946. His first novel Breaking of the Spirit, was inspired by events surrounding workers' unrest in the city.
He graduated from Faculty of Medicine Mansoura in 1975 and he worked in the rural province of Minya for a year and a half, before turning to writing (novels, short story collections and children's books).
He now lives in Kuwait, and is an editor for the magazine Al-Arabi.
His novel Moon over Samarkand has been published in English by AUC Press.
