Ihsan Abdel Quddous
| Ihsan Abdel Quddous إحسان عبد القدوس |
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| Born | 11 January 1919 |
| Died | 12 January 1990 (aged 71) |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer, journalist |
| Children | Mohammed Abdel Quddous |
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Mohamed Abdel Quddous Rose al Yusuf |
Ihsan Abdel Quddous (Arabic: إحسان عبد القدوس ʼIḥsān ʻAbd al-Quddūs, IPA: [ʔeħˈsæːn ʕæbdel.qʊdˈduːs]) (1 January 1919 – 11 January 1990) was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in the Al Akhbar and Al-Ahram newspapers. He is known to have written many novels that have been adapted in films.
Abdel Quddous was born to a Muslim family of Turkish-Egyptian ancestry. His favorite hobby as a child was reading. At the age of eleven, he started writing short stories and classical poems. His father, Mohamed Abdel Quddous, an Egyptian theatre and film actor, motivated him to pursue a career in law. Ihsan graduated from law school in 1942 and worked as a lawyer. He was, at the beginning of his career, a trainee for the law firm of Edward Qussairi, a famous Egyptian lawyer. He was also an editor in Rose al Youssef, a weekly magazine that his mother Fatima al Youssef (aka Rose al Yusuf) had founded.
In 1944, he started writing film scripts, short stories, and novels. He later left his law career to focus on his literary career. A few years later, he became a distinguished journalist in the Al Akhbar newspaper, where he worked for eight years. He then worked in the Al-Ahram newspaper and became its editor-in-chief. He often criticized important personalities, which got him imprisoned three times throughout his journalism career.
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