Waguih ghali biography

Waguih Ghali (25 February 1927/1928/1929 – 5 January 1969) was an Egyptian writer, best known for his novel Beer in the Snooker Club (André Deutsch, 1964).
Waguih Ghali was an Egyptian writer, best known for his novel Beer in the Snooker Club.
Waguih Ghali was born in Cairo on February 25th, most likely in 1930.

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Waguih Ghali

Egyptian writer

Waguih Ghali (25 February 1927/1928/1929 – 5 January 1969) was an Egyptian writer, best known for his novel Beer in the Snooker Club (André Deutsch, 1964). Fearing political persecution, Ghali spent his adult years impoverished, living in exile in Europe. He died on 5 January 1969, after a fatal overdose of sleeping pills taken 10 days before.

Biography

Waguih Ghali was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a Coptic family. According to Ghali's friend and editor, Diana Athill, Ghali carefully obscured details about his past.^[1] Ghali's diary confirms his birthdate (25 February), but not his birth year. He was probably born between 1927 and 1929. When he was young, his father died, and his mother (née Ibrahim) remarried. In his diary Ghali writes about his family's financial struggles. Homeless, he shuttled among friends and relatives in both Alexandria and Cairo. Yet, members of his extended family were wealthy and influential, and there are details of a life of privilege in his writings as well.^{[citation needed]}

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Waguih Ghali’s Diaries: Political Ethics, Personal Aesthetics

It took fifty years for Waguih Ghali’s only novel Beer in the Snooker Club (1964)to achieve cult status among Egyptians. It has taken about the same time for his diaries to be published. The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties are now available in print by the American University Press, in two volumes. They cover the last four years of Ghali’s life. Volume 1 (1964-66) is dedicated to his time working for the British Army Corps in West Germany, and his subsequent move to London. Volume 2 (1966-68) covers his sojourn in London, and his visit to Israel in 1967. No one has more reason to rejoice than Ghali fans, but it won’t be the first time that Arab readers wonder where to locate his work vis-à-vis the region’s interrelated political and aesthetic contexts.

Ghali committed suicide in London in 1968, leaving behind six notebooks to his editor and friend, Diana Athill, along with a note asking her to publish them. The diaries remained in Athill’s hands for decades but received relative

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Waguih Ghali

Beer in the Snooker Club

3.93 avg rating — 3,900 ratings — published 1964 — 43 editions

الورود حقيقية
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3.08 avg rating — 108 ratings

رسائل وجيه غالي إلى ديانا أتهيل
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3.07 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2019

The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties: Volume 1: 1964–66
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3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions

رسائل السنوات الأخيرة
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3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings

The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties Volume 2: 1966--68
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4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions