Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (June 10, 1962 – April 2, 2018) was an Egyptian physician, writer, author, and translator. He is considered the first Arab writer in the field of horror literature. The most famous in the field of youth literature, fantasy, and science fiction. He was called "The Godfather".
He was born in Tanta, El Gharbia Governorate. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Tanta University in 1985 and obtained his doctorate in Tropical Medicine in 1997. He joined as a faculty member and consultant in the Department of Endemic Internal Diseases in Tanta Medicine. His literary activity continued with his practice of medicine.
His literary journey began with the writing of the Supernatural series, and although horror literature was not prevalent at the time, the series was a great success, and was well received by the public. What encouraged him to complete it, after which he released the Fantasia series in 1995, and the Safari series in 1996. In 2006, the WWW series.
Ahmed Tawfik wrote novels that achieved wide public success, the most famous of which is Utopia in 2008, which was translated into several languages and republished in subsequent years. As well as the novel Al-Singh, which was published in 2012, and a novel such as Icarus in 2015. Then a novel in the mice passageway, which was published in 2016, in addition to other books such as: Burnable Snippets, and A Disembodied Mind, and now we open the box, which was published in three parts.
He is also famous for his journalistic writings. In 2004, he joined Al-Shabab magazine, which is published by Al-Ahram Foundation. He also had publications in Al-Tahrir newspaper and many other magazines. He has also been active in translation, publishing the Shiver of Fear series, which are translated horror novels, translating the famous Fight Club novel by Chuck Polanek, translating Dermaforia in 2010, translating the Kite Runner in 2012, and translating Che Guevara: An Illustrated Biography in 2018.
He began his working life in the Modern Arab Institution in 1992 as a horror writer for the Paranormal series and presented his first novel under the name "The Vampire Legend". Ahmed Al-Mokadam, one of the officials of the Modern Arab Foundation, advised him to complete writing in horror literature and helped him meet Hamdi Mustafa, the director of the foundation, who presented his story to a committee to assess its strength, but the committee criticized the idea of the novel and the style.
Hamdi Mustafa insisted on presenting the story to another committee, and Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq was surprised by the opinion of the second committee that does justice to the novel and describes it as having an excellent style, with a novel plot, excitement and suspense. The second surprise was that the committee’s decision was signed by Dr. Nabil Farouk, about whom Tawfiq said: Farouk said it was a direct reason for me to enter the institution, otherwise I would have stopped writing after a year at the most).
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik presented six series of novels, which amounted to nearly 236 issues, and he has translated a number of foreign novels within a series of international pocket novels. Outside this series, he also provided the only Arabic translations of the three novels Fight Club by American novelist Chuck Polanek and Dermaforia (a novel by Craig Clevenger) and The Book of Graves (Neil Gaiman), in addition to translating the long novel (The Kite Runner by Afghan Khaled Hosseini) into a graphic novel. , and a translation (Che Guevara: An Illustrated Biography) published posthumously. He has some poetic experiences.
In November 2004 he joined Al-Shabab magazine to write stories on his permanent page under the title "Now We Open the Box", and he has written in several periodicals.
He married Dr. Manal is a chest specialist at the Faculty of Medicine in Tanta, and he has two sons, “Mohammed” and “Maryam.”
Ahmed Tawfiq died on April 2, 2018 in Demerdash Hospital at the age of 55. On the same day, he underwent a cautery operation to treat the fibrillation he was suffering from, but his heart stopped several hours after he woke up from the operation due to sudden ventricular fibrillation.
The Egyptian Minister of Culture, and all sectors and bodies of the Ministry of Culture mourned his passing, saying, “Egyptian and Arab culture has lost a great novelist as long as he enriched cultural life in Egypt and the Arab world.
She added that "the late writer left many important novels and critical writings to the Arabic library, and was one of the most prominent writers of suspense and youth stories in the Arab world, which is characterized by his interesting and interesting style, which earned him a large base of audience and readers."
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