Jabbour Douaihy
Jabbour Douaihy ( Arabic جبور الدويهي; * 1949 in Zgharta , Lebanon ) is a Lebanese writer.
Life
Douaihy comes from a Christian Lebanese family. He studied comparative literature at the Sorbonne . Douaihy is Professor of French Literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut .
His novel Morgen des Zorns was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2008 and has been translated into several languages; it was published in German in 2012. In it, the author works in changing perspectives on a feud that grew into civil war in the 1950s, into his Family was actually involved. Twenty people were killed in the feud in a single day. Names and events were changed or fictionalized.
The novel Chased away was nominated for the Arab Booker Prize 2012.
In addition to novels, Jabbour Douaihy writes short stories and children's books.
Works
- Morning of Wrath , translated from Arabic by Larissa Bender. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23852-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with NOW Lebanon (2008) ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Lebanese author Jabbour Douaihy: We always live between two attacks . In: FAZ.NET . October 29, 2012, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 29, 2018]).
- ↑ Author profile ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the IPAF website
- ↑ Interview with RAYA (2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Douaihy, Jabbour |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | جبور الدويهي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lebanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zgharta , Lebanon |