Mohammad Salah Al Azab is Egyptian, born in 1981. His first novel
A Long Cellar with a Low Ceiling Making You Crouch was published by Suad Al-Sabah Publishers in 2003. That same year, his short story collection
Blue in a Sad Way was published by the Higher Council for Culture in Cairo. In 2007, his second novel
Repeated Stopping was published by Dar Merit, followed by his third,
The Italian's Bed, in 2008. He has won seven literary awards, including the Suad Al-Sabah Award for the Novel, and the Higher Council for Culture’s Award for the Short Story in 1999 and 2004. He also won the Higher Council for Culture Award for the Novel in 2004.
