Serag Monier is an Egyptian award-winning novelist, a plastic surgeon, and a lecturer in medical school. He was born in 1977 in a small town in the Nile delta in north Egypt. His home town was once called Buto, the capital of the ancient north Egyptian kingdom 5000 years ago.
Since 2014, he published four Arabic novels and one English novel which is a translation of an Arabic one. He is inspired by the long time he spent working with trauma and burn victims and by his reading in literature from diverse cultures. In February 2020, he won the Sheikh Rashid bin Hamad Al-Sharqi Creativity Award