Wagdy El komy
Egypt
Novelist and Journalist
Literature

Wagdy El komy
Egypt
Novelist and Journalist
Literature

Grantee

Exceptional Grants for Supporting Artists & Writers
2020
Painting 130
Novel “Painting 130” (working title)
A novel based on the life of the Egyptian artist, Mahmoud Said, it relates how three of his paintings made their way out of Egypt via his friends and ended up in the possession of an unidentified individual who subsequently raked in a fortune by auctioning them off at Christie’s in London. The three works were sold in one of Christie’s “Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art” sales in October 2019. Each of the works was valued at between 10,000 and 15,000 Sterling.