WRITER

Latifa al-Zayyat

1923 - 1996

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Latifa al-Zayyat (Arabic: لطيفة الزيات) (8 August 1923 – 10 September 1996) was an Egyptian activist and writer, most famous for her novel The Open Door, which won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Latifa al-Zayyat has received more than 97,439 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Latifa al-Zayyat is the 4,991st most popular writer (up from 5,334th in 2019), the 509th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 496th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Egyptian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 97k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The search
Arab Women authors, Biography, Imprisonment
1996
Open Door
Fiction, general
2002
al- Rajul alladhī ʻarafa tuhmatah
Short stories.
1995
Ṣāḥib al-bayt
1994
The open door
Egypt, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
2000
The open door
Fiction, general
2002

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 4,991 out of 7,302. Before her are Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Tony Cliff, Kenneth Copeland, Bernard Clavel, Johann Gottfried Seume, and Rosa Chacel. After her are Peter F. Hamilton, Aminata Sow Fall, Eleanor Farjeon, Alki Zei, Vladimir Oravsky, and José Bergamín.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 334. Before her are Hrant Shahinyan, Paula Fox, Shlomo Hillel, Eduardo Lourenço, Dina Merrill, and Bernard Clavel. After her are Kosta Tomašević, Sulamith Goldhaber, Natália Correia, Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Rose Marie, and Ferenc Sidó. Among people deceased in 1996, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 241. Before her are Marin Sorescu, William Colby, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Hrant Shahinyan, Wálter Guevara, and Olle Åhlund. After her are Pavel Solovyov, Václav Hovorka, Viktor Konovalenko, Kusuo Kitamura, Petre Steinbach, and Duane Hanson.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 509 out of 642. Before her are Tiberius Claudius Balbilus (100), Gamal Mubarak (1963), Ahmose-Sitamun (-1600), Pope Eumenes of Alexandria (100), Mohamed Aboutrika (1978), and Pope Markianos of Alexandria (100). After her are Iah (-2200), Ahmose, son of Ebana (-1600), Lotfia Elnadi (1907), Aly Lotfy Mahmoud (1935), Ahmed al-Senussi (1933), and Jonathan Williams (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Latifa al-Zayyat ranks 53. Before her are Alaa Al Aswany (1957), Aisha Taymur (1840), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), Andrée Chedid (1920), Penelope Delta (1874), and Gamal El-Ghitani (1945). After her are Mahmud Taymur (1894), Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892), Bahaa Taher (1935), Magdi Allam (1952), Karim Rashid (1960), and Alifa Rifaat (1930).

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