Mahmoud Al-Wardani (Arabic: محمود الورداني ) is an Egyptian writer, novelist, storyteller and journalist.
He participated in the October War in 1973, co-founded the newspaper Akhbar Al-Adab.
He sold ice, worked in a laundry, a cane juice shop, a café, then a studio.
He claimed to see no conflict between the ideology of the writer and his political and intellectual views.
[4][5][6] Mahmoud Al-Wardani wrote many books varying from long novels to short story collections, including: Mahmoud Al-Wardani was honored by many parties in the Arab world, including many literary awards, the most important of which is first prize in the novel branch for senior writers, and in the 2013 Sawiris Cultural Competition for his novel House of Fire.