Alawiya Sobh

Alawiya Sobh (Arabic: علوية صبح) (born 1955) is a Lebanese writer and author.[1]

Alawiya Sobh
BornAlawiya Sobh
Beirut, Lebanon
OccupationWriter and Novelist
NationalityLebanese
EducationEnglish & Arabic Literature
Alma materLebanese University

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

gollark: Do not insult this great tradition.
gollark: What? We are doing ITERATED PRISONER'S DILEMMA WITH VISIBLE SOURCE.
gollark: ```scheme(define reflector (lambda (x y z) (if (eq? z reflector) 0 (z x y z))))```
gollark: I wrote `reflector`, which plays a thing against itself.
gollark: Unless I can just get the "stack depth" or something somehow.

References
  1. "Alawiya : Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  2. Gropp, Lewis. "Telling Stories to Survive".
  3. "Mondadori Biography". Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. "Hay Festival". Archived from the original on 2017-07-16.
  5. "Banipal's biography of Alawiya Sobh". Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  6. "International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies" (PDF).
  7. "Alawiya Sobh".
  8. "It's Called Love long-listed".
  9. "Arabic Booker Prize longlist 2010". Archived from the original on 2012-02-02.
  10. "جائزة علوية صبح في النقد الروائي في سلسلة بصمات إبداعية في المغرب". Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  11. "Maryam".
  12. "Maryam ou Le passé décomposé".
  13. "Marjams Geschichten".
  14. "Dunya translated into Italian".
  15. "Il suo nome è passione".
  16. "It's Called Passion" in Romanian". Archived from the original on 2016-08-15.


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