This is a List of Egyptian writers. A writer is a person who writes books, stories , or articles as a job. A writer is a person who writes books, stories , or articles as a job.

• Hussein Abdelfatah
• Abaza family
• Fekry Pasha Abaza (1896–1979)
• Abdel Rahman El Abnudi (1938–2015)
• Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892–1955)
• Yasser Abdel Hafez (1969– )
• Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (1946– )
• Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990)
• Yahya Taher Abdullah (1938–1981)
• Hamdy Abowgliel
• Yusuf Abu Rayya (1955–2009)
• Tatamkulu Afrika (1920–2002), also connected with South Africa
• Leila Ahmed (1940– )
• Abbas Al Akkad (1889–1964)
• Jamila al-‘Alayili (1907–1991)
• Edwar al-Kharrat (1926–2015)
• Muhammad Aladdin, novelist, short story writer and script writer
• Ahmed Alaidy (1974– )
• Idris Ali (1940–2010)
• Karim Alrawi
• Samir Amin (1931–2018)
• Gaber Asfour (1944–2021)
• Radwa Ashour (1946–2014)
• Alaa Al Aswany (1957– )
• Abdel Rahim Ahmed
• Hala el Badry
• Kerolos Bahgat
• Salwa Bakr
• Sherin Hanaey
• Hussein Bassir, archaeologist
• Siham Bayoumi
• Constantine Cavafy
• Andrée Chedid (1920–2011), poet and novelist^{[Killam & Rowe]}
• Abo El Seoud El Ebiary (1910–1969)
• Mohammad Elsannour
• Mohamed Osman Elkhosht
• Mansoura Ez Eldin
• Radwa El Aswad
• Fawzia Fahim (1931– )
• Fawziya Mahran (1931-2019)
• Nabil Farouk (1956–2020)
• Fathy Ghanem (1924–1998), novelist, journalist and editor^{[Killam & Rowe]}
• Gamal Al-Ghitani (1945–2015)
• Sayed Gouda
• Mohammed Lotfy Gomaa
• Moawad GadElrab
• Mohammad Moustafa Haddara (1930–1997)
• Tawfik El Hakim (1898–1987), playwright^{[Killam & Rowe]}
• Yehia Hakki (1905–1992), short-story writer, novelist, critic
• Muhammad Husayn Haykal (1909–1956)
• Ihab Husni (1966– )
• Taha Hussein (1889–1973)
• Hafez Ibrahim (1872–1932)
• Sonallah Ibrahim (1937– )
• Yusuf Idris (1927–1991)
• Edmond Jabès (1912–1991)
• Ezzat el Kamhawi
• Ahmad Al-Khamisi (1948– )
• Edwar al-Kharrat (1926–2015)
• Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), novelist, short story writer and playwright; awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature^{[Killam & Rowe]}
• Mustafa Mahmud (1921–2009)
• Zaki Naguib Mahmoud (1905–1993)
• Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
• Anis Mansour (1925–2011)
• Ibrahim al-Mazini
• Iman Mersal
• Ahmed Mourad
• Salama Moussa (1887–1958)
• Ra’ouf Mus’ad
• Noor Naga
• Nicos Nicolaides
• Naguib Mahfouz
• Rawhiya al-Qallini
• Abdel Hakim Qasem
• Sayyid Qutb
• Somaya Ramadan (1951– )
• Alifa Rifaat (1930–1996)
• Nawâl El Saadâwi (1931–2021), feminist writer and activist^{[Killam & Rowe]}
• Mekkawi Said (1956–2017), novelist and short story write
• Salama Ahmed Salama (1932–2012), journalist and author
• Ibtihal Salem (1949–2015), short story writer, novelist and translato
• Muhammad Jamal Saqr (1966), poet
• Khairy Shalaby (1938–2011), novelist and author
• Ahmed Shawqi (1868–1932), poet laureate
• Gilbert Sinoué (1947), guitarist and author
• Laila Soliman (1981), playwright^[4]
• Ahdaf Soueif (1950), novelist and political and cultural commentator
• Sameh Sami (1978), author
• Miral al-Tahawy
• Bahaa Taher
• Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (1962–2018)
• Sahar Tawfiq
• Sherin Hanaey
• Aisha Taymur
• May Telmissany
• Munira Thabit (1902–1967), first woman lawyer in Egypt, journalist and writer
• Affaf Tobbala (1941– )^[5]
• Ahmad Khaled Towfeq
• Mireille Vincendon (born 1910), French-language poet and writer.^[Gikandi]
• Amina Zaydan (1966– )
• May Ziadeh (1886–1941)
• Youssef Ziedan (1958– )

This is a list of Egyptian American writers.

• Nonie Darwish, author and writer
• Victor Hassine, prison writer
• Lucette Lagnado, author and journalist

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