Saeed Aulaqi
Saeed Aulaqi is a Yemeni dramatist and fiction writer. His story "The Succession" has been translated into English and was anthologized in two anthologies published in the West. As a playwright, he has tackled revolutionary themes and published a number of plays:
- Nidaa' al-Ard
- Fawq al-Jabal
- al-Qawi Wa l-Aqwa
- at-Tirka
- Mashrou' Zawaaj
- al-Mahzala al-Idaariyya.
He also wrote a comprehensive history of the theatre in Yemen entitled Sab’oun ‘Aaman Min al-Masrah Fi l-Yaman.
According to the German scholar Gunther Orth, Aulaqi was born in 1946 in Aden.