Samir Abdel Fattah is a Yemeni short story writer, novelist and playwright.
[1] He was born in Jibla, Yemen in 1971, and he moved to Sanaa in 1982, where he studied economics and business at university.
He often deals with existential themes and his work is regarded as part of the avant-garde in modern Yemeni literature.
In 2009, he teamed up with fellow writers Nadia al-Kokabany, Wajdi al-Ahdal and Ali al-Moqri to form a literary group called Meeting Yesterday.
[2] His work has been translated into Italian and was included in an anthology of contemporary Yemeni writers called Perle Dello Yemen (2009).