| Salma El-Sharkawy |
English writer, novelist, and composer, born in Manchester, England. He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Manchester and obtained a BA in 1940. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and then became an English teacher at Banbury Grammar School. He also served as an education officer for the Malay Federation. He wrote more than fifty novels, the first of which was The Malay Trilogy, and his most famous novel is A Clockwork Orange, which was adapted by film director Stanley Kubrick into the film A Clockwork Orange (1971). He died on November 22, 1993.
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