Mohammed Hasan Alwan (born 27 August 1979) is a Saudi Arabian novelist.[1] He was born in Riyadh and studied Computer Information Systems at King Saud University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 2002. He also obtained an MBA from the University of Portland, Oregon in 2008 and Ph.D from Carleton University, Ottawa in 2016.[2]
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| Born | 27 August 1979 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
| Genre | Novels, short stories |
Alwan has published five novels to date: Saqf Elkefaya (2002), Sophia (2004), Touq Altahara (2007), "Al-Qundus" (2011), and "Mouton Sageer" (2016). His work has appeared in translation in Banipal magazine ("Blonde Grass" and "Statistics", translated by Ali Azeriah); in The Guardian ("Oil Field", translated by Peter Clark);[3] and in Words Without Borders ("Mukhtar", translated by William M. Hutchins).[4]
His work was published in the Beirut39 anthology (Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World, edited by Samuel Shimon) and in the IPAF Nadwa anthology (Emerging Arab Voices, edited by Peter Clark).
Awards and honors edit
In 2009-10, Alwan was chosen as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 40 by the Beirut39 project. He was also a participant in the first IPAF Nadwa in 2009.
In 2013, his novel, Al-Qundus, was shortlisted in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013).[5] In 2015, Alwan won the Arab World Institute's Prix de la Littérature Arabe for Al-Qundus, translated to French by Stéphanie Dujols as Le castor.[6] It was considered the best novel to be translated into French in 2015.[7] In 2017, he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for A Small Death, a novel about Ibn Arabi.[8]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Contributors - Mohammed Hasan Alwan". Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ "Biography". AlAlwan.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ "Oil Field by Mohammed Hasan Alwan, translated by Peter Clark". The Guardian. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ Alwan, Mohammed Hasan (August 2011). "Mukhtar". wordswithoutborders.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ Farrington, Joshua (9 January 2013). "Shortlist for International Prize for Arabic Fiction". The Bookseller. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ^ Lynx Qualey, M. (30 September 2015). "Mohammed Hasan Alwan Wins Prix de la Littérature Arabe for 'The Beaver'". arablit.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ "Mohammed Hasan Alwan | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
- ^ "Mohammed Hasan Alwan wins 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction". arabicfiction.org. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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