Mona Latif-Ghattas

Mona Latif-Ghattas (Egyptian Arabic: منى لطيف غطاس; August 7, 1946 - December 24, 2021) was an Egyptian-born Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.

She left Egypt in 1966 and lived in Montreal, studied theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal and went on to earn a master's degree in drama at the Université de Montréal.

In 1996, she published a collection of short stories Les lunes de miel.

[3] Her work has appeared in the journals Humanitas, Pratiques Théâtrales and La Nouvelle Barre du jour [fr].

Latif-Ghattas' poetry collection Ambre et lumière received the Prix du Salon international des poètes francophones.