Amina Zaydan (born 1966) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1966 in Suez and now lives in Cairo where she works as a civil servant. Zaydan is known for her strong stand on gender inequality in her writings. In 1994, her short story collection entitled It Happened Secretly won first prize in a literary competition held by Gamal al-Ghitani's Akhbar al-Adab weekly newspaper. It also won the prize for Best Short Story Collection at the Cairo International Book Fair the following year. She has since published a further volume of short stories called Fawda and several novels. Her second novel Red Wine won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2007. An English translation of Red Wine by Sally Gomaa was published by the AUC Press in 2010. References People from Suez 1966 births Egyptian novelists Egyptian women short story writers Egyptian short story writers Living people Recipients of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature International Writing Program alumni 20th-century Egyptian women writers 20th-century Egyptian writers 20th-century short story writers 21st-century Egyptian women writers 21st-century Egyptian writers 21st-century novelists 21st-century short story writers