CAIRO (AP) β Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and educator Radwa Ashour has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 68.
She chronicled her fight against cancer in her novel “Heavier than Radwa,” set against the turbulent days of Egypt’s revolution. She died Sunday and her funeral was Monday.
Born in Cairo in 1946, Ashour’s writing won multiple awards, including the Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature in 2007 and the Owais Prize in 2011. Her best-known work is the “Granada” trilogy, whose setting is the rise and fall of Arab civilization in Spain.
She was politically active her entire life, notably as a founding member of the March 9 movement calling for the independence of Egypt’s universities.
She is survived by her husband, Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, and her son, poet Tamim Barghouti.
