| Mona Latif-Ghattas | |
| Birth Place: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Birth Date: | 7 August 1946 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Genre: | novel, short story, poetry |
Mona Latif-Ghattas (منى لطيف غطاس; August 7, 1946 - December 24, 2021) was an Egyptian-born Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.
She was born in Cairo. She left Egypt in 1966 and lived in Montreal, studied theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal and went on to earn a master's degree in drama at the Université de Montréal.[1] [2]
She published her first novel Nicolas, le fils du Nil in 1985 and her first collection of poetry La triste beauté du monde in 1993. In 1996, she published a collection of short stories Les lunes de miel.[3] Her work has appeared in the journals Humanitas, Pratiques Théâtrales and . Latif-Ghattas' poetry collection Ambre et lumière received the Prix du Salon international des poètes francophones. She has published work in both French and Arabic.[1]
Latif-Ghattas died on December 24, 2021, at the age of 75.[4]