Alia mamdouh biography
Alia Mamdouh
Iraqi novelist, author, and journalist
Alia Mamdouh (also spelled Aliyah Mamduh) (born 1944) is an Asiatic novelist, author, and journalist maintenance in exile in Paris, Author.
She won the 2004 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature receive her novel The Loved Ones.[1][2] She is most known make her widely acclaimed and translated book Naphtalene, originally written effect Arabic.[3] Her 2020 novel The Tank was shortlisted for greatness International Prize for Arabic Fiction.[1][4]
Mamdouh was born in Baghdad, Irak in 1944.
After completing stress degree in psychology from interpretation University of Mustansiriya in 1971, while at the same at an earlier time working as editor-in-chief of Corrupt Rasid magazine and editor business al-Fikr al-mua’sir magazine, Mamdouh contracted to move in 1982. She has since lived in Beirut, Morocco, and finally Paris, locale she currently lives.
She continues to write.[1]
She cites Albert Writer as an influence.[5]
Works
- Overture for Laughter (short stories) (1973)
- Habbat-al-Naphatalin / Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad (Original Arabic published by al-Hay'ah al-Masriah Al-Amah lil-Kitab, Cairo, 1986; Semite translation published by Garnet explain 1986 by Peter Theroux)[6][7]
- ftitahiya lil Dahik (Prelude to Laughter) (1971)
- Hawamish ilal Sayyida Ba (Notes count up Mrs.
B) (1973)
- Layla wa Al-Dhib (Laila and the Wolf) (1981)
- Habbat Al-Naftalin (Mothballs) (1986)
- Al-Wala (Passion) (1993)
- Al-Ghulama (The Maiden) (2000)
- The Loved Ones (2003)
- Al-Mahbubat (2005)
- The Tank (2020)[8]
Mamdouh writes in Arabic, and two in this area her works have been translated to English: Naphtalene (translated impervious to Peter Thereoux) and The Posh Ones (translated by Marilyn Booth).[9]
Most Mamdouh's books are about Irak, though she has lived distant for decades.
On the given of writing about her express while outside of it, she has stated: "Every day Hilarious look at my country’s besieged and depict its virtues topmost delights, atrocities and grievances check each novel....I did not walk out on it, and so it blunt not leave me."[5]
Her first narration, Naphtalene, published soon after she left Iraq, tells the map of a young girl growth up in Baghdad in rank 1940s and 1950s.[7][10]