Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif ( Arabic أهداف سويف, DMG ʾAhdāf Suwaīf ; born March 23, 1950 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian-British writer.
Life
Ahdaf Soueif ( Arabic أهْداف سُوَيْف) grew up in Egypt and Great Britain and studied at Lancaster University , where she received her PhD . In 1993 she published her first novel Eye of the Sun , which she wrote, like her other novels, in English. Her second novel The Map of Love (1999) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . She translated Mourid Barghouti into English. Her articles on culture and politics appear in leading Arab and European newspapers.
In 2008 she was among the founders of the Palestine Festival of Literature .
She was married to the literary critic Ian Hamilton (1938-2001), with whom she has two children.
On May 9, 2019, Soueif was selected as the winner of the year 2019 for the “ European Culture Prize ” of the European Cultural Foundation - “expressly for her 'activism'” and as a “mediator between Occident and Orient”: “Ahdaf Soueif has herself in her fictional Texts dedicated to the Arab gender ratio in a very impressive way. She also accompanied the short democratic spring in Egypt as a journalist ”. The fact that the winner was selected without even mentioning her “irreconcilable 'anti-Zionism'” was also criticized by the press.
Works (selection)
As an author
- stories
- I think of you. Selected stories of "Aisha" and "Sandpiper" . Bloomsbury, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7475-8819-1 .
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Sandpiper. Short stories . Bloomsbury, London 1996, ISBN 0-7475-2481-5 .
- German: strange magic. Narratives . Goldmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-43775-X (translated from English by Angelika Felenda).
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Aisha. Short stories . Cape Books, London 1983, ISBN 0-224-02097-8 .
- Aisha. Love stories from Egypt (= the woman in literature). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-548-30217-3 (translated from English by Maria Mill).
- Essays
- Mezzaterra. Fragments from the Common Ground . Bloomsbury, London 2004, ISBN 0-7475-7725-0 .
- Novels
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The Map of Love. A novel . Bloomsbury, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7475-9002-6 (EA London 1999)
- German: The map of love. Novel . RM-Buch-und-Medien-Vertrieb, Rheda-Wiedenbrück 2000 (translated from English by Angelika Felenda).
- In the Eye of the Sun . Bloomsbury, London 1999, ISBN 0-7475-4589-8 (EA New York 1992)
- Non-fiction
- Cairo. Memoir of a city transformed . Pantheon Books, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-307-90810-0 (former title: Cairo. My City, Our Revolution ).
As a translator
- Mourid Barghouti : I Saw Ramallah . Bloomsbury, London 2005, ISBN 0-7475-7470-7 (EA New York 2003)
literature
- Sabina D'Alessandro: The politics of representation in Ahdaf Soueif's "The map of love" . Peter Lang Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-0343-0659-1 .
- Andrea Backhaus: "In our country there is currently semi-fascism" . Interview. In: Die Welt from January 25, 2014, p. 23.
- Jonathan Bastable, Hannah McGill (Eds.): The 21st century novel. Notes from the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2014, ISBN 978-0-7486-9834-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ahdaf Soueif , at British Council
- ↑ Marco Stahlhut: European Culture Prize: Award for fanatical Israel opponent. FAZ , May 13, 2019, accessed on May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ FAZ, ibid.
- ↑ Content: Knowing. - 1964. - Returning. - Mandy. - Satan. - Chez Milou. - Melody. - I think of you. - Sandpiper.
- ↑ Content: Melody. - Sandpiper. - Chez Milou. - The water heater. - Mandy. - Satan. - I think of you.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ahdaf Soueif in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Ahdaf Soueif in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ahdaf Soueif at perlentaucher.de
- Ahdaf Soueif , website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soueif, Ahdaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian-English writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |