Nura Amin

Nura Amin (born 4 July 1970) is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and translator.

A native of Cairo, Amin received her bachelor's degree in French from Cairo University in 1992, and has since worked as a teaching assistant at the Academy of Arts, in the Center for Languages and Translation. She has published a number of translations into Arabic from English and French. As a writer, she received the short-story prize from the General Authority for Culture Palaces in 1996; three years later she won the prize for the best novel by a writer under the age of forty which was offered by the Andalusiya Foundation for Culture and Arts. Amin has also been active as a film, theater, and literary critic for Al Ahali and for al-Hilal.