Ashraf Dali

Ashraf Dali (Ashraf Aboul-Yazid) is an Egyptian poet, novelist and journalist.

He was born in Banha (also spelt Benha), Egypt on March 13, 1963.

He is the Acting President of the AJA (Asia Journalist Association).

Since 1989, when his first book of poetry was published, Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali) has been keen to introduce himself as a man of words.

He introduced some figures of literature from South Korea, Russia and India to Arab readers, and his most recently translations were two volumes of Korean poetry; 'One Thousand & One Lives, An Anthology of Selected Poems' by the Korean Poet Ko Un), and 'Qeddison Youhalleqo Baaidan (The Far-off Saint), Translated Poems' by the Korean Poet Cho Oh-hyun. Since March 2009, he has been writing weekly adventures to introduce the Asian Silk Road cities and civilizations to Arab children.

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Ashraf Dali won the Manhae Prize in Literature 2014.

He won the Arab Journalism Award in Culture, in 2015, given by Dubai Press Club, UAE, for his work published in Al-Arabi magazine, The Art of Miniature in Literature, History and Myth.

Some of his literary works are translated into Spanish, Korean, Turkish, English and Persian.

Selected poems were also translated into Russian, and Italian.

He has published his travels to more than 33 countries in Al-Arabi magazine, and other cultural periodicals.

Dali has participated in cultural international conferences held in Egypt, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Costa Rica, Syria, Yemen, UAE, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the Republic of Korea.