Yusuf Abu Rayya (Arabic: يوسف أبو رية, romanized: Yūsuf Abū Rayyah; 1955 – 12 January 2009) was an Egyptian author.
[1] He was born in 1955 in Hihya in the Sharqiya Governorate, and studied journalism at Cairo University.
This novel won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal, and an English translation by R Neil Hewison was published by the AUC Press in 2006.
Abu Rayya served on the governing board of the Egyptian branch of PEN International.
Abu Rayya died of liver cancer in January 2009.