Anis Mansour, also transliterated as Anīs Manṣūr ( ar, أنيس منصور, ) (18 August 1924 – 21 October 2011) was an Egyptian writer.

Biography

Mansour was born in Al-Mansoura on 18 August 1924. He obtained his BA in philosophy at

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in 1947 and started his journalistic career. He joined the staff of the newspaper ''Al Asas'', later joining many other newspapers and magazines such as '' Rose al-Yousef'' and ''

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''. He served as the

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of the magazine ''

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'' from 1970 to 1976. He became the editor-in-chief of the ''

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'' magazine in 1976. Anis wrote more than 170 books on many subjects, some of which were translated into French, Dutch and Russian. He translated about 200 short stories and more than 20 plays into Arabic. He introduced

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to the Arabic literature by being the first to translate his works. His most famous book is "حول العالم في 200 يوم : الحائز على جائزة الدولية / Ḥawla al-ʻālam fī 200 yawm : al-ḥāʼiz ʻalá jāʼizah al-dawlīyah", ("Around the World in 200 days")المكتب المصري الحديث،

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: al-Maktab al-Miṣrī al-Ḥadīth, 1998.
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/ref> which documented his actual journey around the world in the early 1960s. The book details many facts and traditions of the countries he visited, including India, Japan, Australia (where he took interest in the local Lebanese community) and the United States, as well as his meeting with the

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. Anis died at age 87 in

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on 21 October 2011.

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