Alawiya Sobh
Alawiya Sobh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alawiya Sobh 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
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’ and remains its editor-in-chief to date.[3]
In 2009, Sobh served on the judging panel of the Beirut39 competition.[4]
Sobh's work has been critically acclaimed.[5][6] For her literary accomplishments and innovative writing, Sobh received the Sultan Qaboos prize in Oman in 2007.[7] Her novels Dunya and It's Called Love were long-listed for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2008[8] and 2010,[9] 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.[10]
Works
Short Stories
- Slumber of Days (1986)
Novels
- Maryam: Keeper of Stories (Dar Al Adab 2002)
- Dunya (Dar Al Adab 2006)
- It's Called Love also known as It's Called Passion (Dar Al Adab 2009)
Translations
- Maryam: Keeper of Stories was translated into English by Seagull Books,[11] into French by Gallimard[12] and into German by Suhrkamp.[13]
- Dunya was translated into Italian by Mondadori.[14]
- It's Called Love was translated into Italian by Mondadori[15] and into Romanian by Polirom.[16]
References
- ^ "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".
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- 1955 births
- People from Beirut
- Lebanese journalists
- Lebanese novelists
- Lebanese women writers
- Lebanese University alumni
- Living people
- Women novelists
- Lebanese women short story writers
- Lebanese short story writers
- Lebanese women journalists
- 20th-century writers
- 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