Alawiya Sobh
Alawiya Sobh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alawiya Sobh 1955 (age 68–69) Beirut, Lebanon |
| Occupation | Writer and novelist |
| Nationality | Lebanese |
| Education | English & Arabic Literature |
| Alma mater | Lebanese University |
Alawiya Sobh (Arabic: علوية صبح) (born 1955) is a Lebanese writer and author.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Beirut, Sobh studied English & Arabic Literature at the Lebanese University.[2] Upon graduation in 1978, she pursued a career in teaching. She also began publishing articles and short stories, at first in An-Nida newspaper and then in An-Nahar. After a spell as cultural editor, she became editor-in-chief of Al-Hasnaa, a popular Arabic women's magazine, in 1986. In the early 1990s, she became editor-in-chief of women's magazine Snob Al-Hasnaa’.[3] In 2009, Sobh served on the judging panel of the Beirut39 competition.[4]
Sobh is now dedicating her time only to writing.
Works
[edit]Short Stories
- Slumber of Days (1986)
Novels (All novels were published originally at Dar Al Adab in their native Arabic language)
- 2002 - Maryam Al-Hakaya (Maryam: Keeper of the Stories)
- 2006 - Dunya (Life)
- 2009 - Ismuhu Al-Gharam (It's Called Passion)
- 2020 - An Taashak Al-Hayat (To Love Life)
Translations
- Maryam Al-Hayaka was translated into English by Seagull Books,[5] into French by Gallimard[6] and into German by Suhrkamp.[7]
- Dunya was translated into Italian by Mondadori.[8]
- Ismuhu Al-Gharam was translated into Italian by Mondadori[9] and into Romanian by Polirom.[10]
Reception of work
[edit]Sobh's work has been critically acclaimed and is the subject of numerous doctoral works and literary studies.[11][12] For her literary accomplishments and innovative writing, Sobh received the Sultan Qaboos prize in Oman in 2007.[13] Her novels Dunya and Ismuhu Al-Gharam were long-listed for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2008[14] and 2010,[15] respectively. In 2016, an eponymous award dubbed the "Alawiya Sobh Literary critique Award" was launched at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan for participants whose critiques center around Sobh's work.[16] Maryam: Keeper of Stories was short-listed in 2019 for the EBRD Literature Prize.[17] Sobh's cumulative work then proceeded to earn her the Al Owais Award in 2019 for the category of "Stories: Novels and Drama".[18] Most recently in 2021, An Taashak Al-Hayat made the three-book short-list in Sheikh Zayed Book Award's Literature section.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alawiya : Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ Gropp, Lewis. "Telling Stories to Survive".
- ^ "Mondadori Biography". Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "Hay Festival". Archived from the original on 2017-07-16.
- ^ "Maryam".
- ^ "Maryam ou Le passé décomposé".
- ^ "Marjams Geschichten".
- ^ "Dunya translated into Italian".
- ^ "Il suo nome è passione".
- ^ "It's Called Passion in Romanian". Archived from the original on 2016-08-15.
- ^ "Banipal's biography of Alawiya Sobh". Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies" (PDF).
- ^ "Alawiya Sobh".
- ^ "It's Called Love long-listed".
- ^ "Arabic Booker Prize longlist 2010". Archived from the original on 2012-02-02.
- ^ "جائزة علوية صبح في النقد الروائي في سلسلة بصمات إبداعية في المغرب". Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "EBRD Literature Prize".
- ^ "Al Owais Award".
- ^ "Sheikh Zayed Book Awards".
- 1955 births
- Writers from Beirut
- Lebanese journalists
- Lebanese novelists
- Lebanese women writers
- Lebanese University alumni
- Living people
- Lebanese women novelists
- Lebanese women short story writers
- Lebanese short story writers
- Lebanese women journalists
- 21st-century novelists
- 20th-century short story writers
- 21st-century short story writers
- 20th-century Lebanese women writers
- 20th-century Lebanese writers
- 21st-century Lebanese women writers
- 21st-century Lebanese writers