Ezzat Elkamhawi is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. In December 2012, el Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel House of the Wolf.

El Kamhawi was born on 23 December 1961 in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, before graduating from thanawya amma (equivalent to high school) he had articles published for him in the Al Gomhuria newspaper.

After graduating (1979) from the department of journalism in the Faculty of Mass Communications, Cairo University, he started working for Al-Akhbar, where he helped establish Akhbar Al-Adab 10 years later,where he also worked as a Senior Editor. And he was the Senior Editor of al-Doha Cultural Magazine from May 2011 until September 2013. He writes weekly for Almasry Alyoum, and Al-Quds Al-Arabi.

Elkamhawi Wrote eleven books, including five novels