Somaya Yehia Ramadan (Arabic: سمية رمضان, romanized: Sumayyah Ramaḍān; 1951 - 20 August 2024) was an Egyptian academic, translator and writer.
She is mainly known for her 2001 novel Awraq Al-Nargis, published in English as Leaves of Narcissus that won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and for her Arabic translation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
[1] Ramadan's first two books were short story collections: Khashab wa Nahass (Wood and Brass) and Manazil al-Qamar (Phases of the Moon).
Her first novel Awraq Al-Nargis (Leaves of Narcissus) published in 2001, set largely in Ireland and centred aroung the notion of exile, won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
Further, she was a founding member of the Women and Memory Forum, a non-profit organisation, and taught English and Translation at the National Academy of Arts in Cairo.