Person

Albert Cossery

Writing · 1913–2008 · Cairo, Egypt

Albert Cossery (Arabic: البرت قصيري) (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer.[1] Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society. Albert Cossery was well known in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he lived in the same hotel, Hotel La Louisiane, since 1945.

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  Hôtel La Louisiane

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  The Idlers of the Fertile Valley

  Novel

• La maison de la mémoire

  Novel

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  The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

  Writer

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  Beggars and Proud Ones

  Writer

• 2015Hôtel La LouisianeSelf
• 1983La maison de la mémoireNovel
• 1978The Idlers of the Fertile ValleyNovel
• 1972Beggars and Proud OnesWriter
• 1968The Marriage Came Tumbling DownWriter