# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hamdi-abu-golayyel
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:49:42.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hamdi-abu-golayyel"
name: "Hamdi Abu Golayyel"
slug: "hamdi-abu-golayyel"
description: "Hamdi Abu Golayyel was an Egyptian writer. The author of several novels and collections of short stories, he is known as one of the new voices in Egyptian fiction. Among other awards, he won the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2022. The literary magazine ArabLit called him a \"chronicler of the lives of Egypt’s marginalized and working-class.\""
tagline: "Egyptian writer (1967–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-08-16"
deathDate: "2023-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.271166666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_Abu_Golayyel"
    title: "Hamdi Abu Golayyel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "حمدي أبو جليل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "حمدى ابو جليل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hamdi_Abu_Golayyel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_Abu_Golayyel"
    title: "Hamdi Abu Golayyel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_Abu_Golayyel"
    title: "Hamdi Abu Golayyel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1573270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump