Salah Abdel Sabour (Arabic: صلاح عبد الصبور) (May 1931 – 14 August 1981) was an Egyptian free verse poet, editor, playwright and essayist.
He showed an interest in literature in his early life and started to write verses at the age of 13.
Soon after graduation from the university, he took up teaching Arabic at state high school, a job he did not enjoy doing.
He eventually abandoned it and began working for Rose al-Yūsuf Magazine as journalist then became the literary editor for al-Ahram.
His first collection of poems, an-Nas fi Biladi ("People In My Land")[1] published in 1956, marked the beginnings of the free verse movement in Egyptian poetry.