Maha Hassan

Maha Hassan is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and novelist.[1] She was born in Aleppo.[2] A native Kurdish speaker, she writes in Arabic. In 2000, she was banned from publishing in her native Syria for her "morally condemnable" writing, and since August 2004, she has been living in self-imposed exile in Paris.[3]

Maha Hassan, The Munathara Initiative, March 2017.

In 2005, she was awarded a Hellman/Hammett grant for persecuted writers by Human Rights Watch. In 2007-2008, Hassan lived for a year at the invitation of Amsterdam Vluchtstad in the renovated apartment of Anne Frank and her family at the Amsterdam Merwedeplein.

Hassan's novels Habl suri (Umbilical Cord, 2011) and al-Rawiyat (The Novels, 2014) and were longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize.[4] In 2021, her novel The Neighbourhood of Wonder was shortlisted for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.[5]

Bibliography
  • The Infinite: Biography of the Other
  • The Picture on the Cover
  • Hymns of Nothingness
  • The Tunnel of Existence
  • Daughters of the Wilderness
  • Habl suri (Umbilical Cord 2011)
  • al-Rawiyat (The Novels 2014)
  • Metro Halab (Aleppo Subway, 2017)
  • Amat sabahan ayatuha al-harb (2018).
  • The Neighbourhood of Wonder

References
  1. "Profile in IPAF website". Archived from the original on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
  2. Interview with the Daily Star, Lebanon, November 2011
  3. Interview with IRIN News, 2005
  4. "New novel on war by Syrian novelist Maha Hassan". nasher-news.com. 10 July 2017.
  5. "The Naguib Mahfouz Medal 2021 Shortlist". AUCPress. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
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