Suhayl Idris

Suhayl Idris (1925 – February 19, 2008) was a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, journalist and translator.

Biography

Idris studied in Beirut before going on to study in Paris and receive a PhD from Sorbonne. His first collection, Ashwaq, was published in 1947. Idriss returned to Beirut in 1952 where he founded Al Adab, a monthly literary journal that became one of the leading periodicals of its kind.[1] Several of his novels have autobiographical themes, including al-Hayy al-Latini (1954) and al-Khandaq al-ghamiq (1958).[2]

Idris also translated many European works, including most of Jean-Paul Sartre[2] and Albert Camus. He had a pro-Nasserist and Arab nationalist political stance.[3]

Idris died on February 19, 2008.[4]

References
  1. "Arabic literature: The 20th century and beyond". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  2. Moreh, Shmeul (1988). Studies in modern Arabic prose and poetry. The Netherlands. p. 85. ISBN 90-04-08359-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. M.J. Ernst; Rossen Djagalov (2022). "The Road to Lotus: Faiz Ahmad Faiz's Magazine Proposal to the Soviet Writers Union". Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 25 (6): 699–718. doi:10.1080/1369801X.2021.2015701. S2CID 252802903.
  4. Khashan, Imad. "Suhayl Idris". Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
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