Ibrahim Aslan (1937–2012) was born in Tanta in the Nile Delta. He was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. His first collection of short stories, Buhayrat al-misa’ (‘Evening Lake’), was published in 1971. Aslan is best known for his first novel Malek al-Hazin (1983), translated by Elliott Colla under the English title The Heron. He is also the author of Nile Sparrows (AUC Press, 2004). Aslan won a number of literary prizes, including the Taha Hussein Award from the University of Minya in 1989 and the Egyptian State Incentive Prize in 2003-2004. Most recently, he won the 2006 Sawiris Prize for his book Hikayat min Fadlallah Uthman (Stories from Fadlallah Uthman)
