Yasser Abdel Latif was born in Cairo in 1969. He graduated from Cairo University in Philosophy in 1994. He has one collection of poetry (Naas wa Ahjar, 1995). He wrote several scripts for TV documentaries. In 2005 he was awarded the Sawiris Prize for his debut novel, Qanoon al-Wiratha, excerpted in  Banipal No. 26.