Luay Hamza Abbas (born 1965) is an Iraqi writer. He now teaches literary criticism at Basra University. Abbas has published several volumes of short stories and one novel.[1]
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In 2010, the National Endowment of the Arts awarded a grant to academic and translator Yasmeen Hanoosh to translate Abbas' short story collection Closing His Eyes (2008).[2] The title story of this volume was translated earlier in Banipal 27 and also won the 2006 Kikah Best Short Story Award in London.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Profile in Banipal website
- ^ NEA announcement of translation grant Archived 2010-12-21 at the Wayback Machine