Edwar al-Kharrat (Arabic: إدوار الخراط; 16 March 1926 – 1 December 2015) was an Egyptian novelist, writer and critic.
As a writer, his first book was a collection of short stories called High Walls, published in 1958/59.
[8] Al-Kharrat himself described the novel as "untranslatable", although an English translation was completed by Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden and published by the AUC Press in 2002 after winning the 1999 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
[11] Al-Kharrat has also translated a number of foreign literary works into Arabic, including Tolstoy's War and Peace.
He has won several prestigious literary awards including the Sultan al-Owais Prize and the Naguib Mahfouz Medal.