Master Of Short Stories - Youssef Idris
Yusuf Idris was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. His work included realistic stories about ordinary and poor people. Many of his works are in the Egyptian vernacular, and he was considered a master of the short story. He was born on19th May, 1927 and trained to be a doctor at the University of Cairo. But it seemed that his love of writing prevailed with the success of his most famous work, his play “AlFarfour” which was the victory of his sought after foundations of a modern Egyptian theatre based on popular traditions and folklore, the play depicted two main characters: the Master and the "Farfour”. Yusif was a regular writer for the famous daily newspaper Al-Ahram. Also, his great skill was recognized as he was nominated several times to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Sadly, Yusif passed away on 1st August 1991 but not without having left the following work to his name:
Short Stories
• The Cheapest Nights.
• Isn't it ?
• Bottom of the city.
• The Hero. ا
• An incident of Honour.
• The End of the world.
• Tha Language of Oh Oh.
• The summons.
• A House of Flesh.
• I am Sultan of the law of existence.
• The Dregs of the City
• The Freak
Plays
• The Cotton King & Farahat's republic. Two Plays
• The Critical Moment.
• Al-Farafir.
• Earthly Comedy.
• The striped Ones.
• The Third Sex.
• Towards an Arabic Drama
• The Harlequin
Novels
• Farahat's Republic & A Love story.
• The Sin.
• The Disgrace.
• Men and Bulls, The Black Soldier, Mrs. Vienna
• The White.
Other writings
• Not very frankly speaking.
• Discovery of a continent.
• The Will.
• Diary of Dr. yusuf Idris.
• The '60s Gabarty.
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