Yasser Abdellatif is a writer and poet from Cairo, Egypt. He has lived and worked in Edmonton, Canada, since 2010. He has published four fiction books and two poetry collections, as well as translated many literary works from French and English into Arabic. He writes mainly in Arabic, although his works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. He has participated in literary events and festivals in France, Spain, Colombia, Germany, Malta, the Netherlands, and the United Arab Emirates. Abdellatif was a resident of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2009. His debut novel, The Law of Inheritance, won the Sawiris Prize in the young writers’ category in 2005. His collection of short stories, Jonah in the Belly of the Whale, won the same prize in the category of prominent writers in 2011.