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Shortlisted for the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the literature category.

Author Hassan Dawood’s work has been translated into several languages, and he has won a number of literature prizes, including the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for “No Road to Paradise”.

Funding is available for translation of all literary and children’s titles that have won or have been shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

Author Biography

Hassan Dawood was born in Beirut in 1950 and holds a degree in Arabic literature from the Faculty of Education at the Lebanese University. He has worked in literary journalism for newspapers such as “As-Safir,” where he managed its weekly supplement, and “Al-Hayat” (1988-1999), as well as “Al-Mustaqbal,” where he was the editor-in-chief of its cultural supplement “Nawafidh” (1999-2012). He has published collections of short stories and novels, including “Matilde’s Building” (1983), “The Penguin’s Song” (1998), which won the Lebanese Cultural Forum Award in France, “One Hundred and Eighty Sunsets,” which received the Italian Mediterranean Prize (2009), and “No Road to Paradise,” which won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature (2015). His book “Women and Fruits” (2020) was published by Dar Naufal, and his novels have been translated into several languages.