سليمان فياض

Egyptian novelist, short-story writer and scholar of the Arabic language, born in the village of Barhamtoush in the Sinbillawin district of Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. He graduated from Al-Azhar University's Faculty of Arabic Language in 1956 and earned a teaching qualification there in 1959.

He wrote for Egyptian radio and television from the 1950s, worked as a journalist and later as a linguistic expert on Arabic-language computing projects, and served as deputy director of Cairo's Teachers' House before retiring early to write full time.

He is best known for the novel Aswat (Voices, 1972), which was translated into several languages, alongside several short-story collections, biographical works on classical Arab scholars, and reference works on Arabic grammar and verb conjugation. He died in Cairo in 2015.