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Fajer Yacoub

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1963
  • Age: 60
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Dawn Yaqoub (March 05, 1963) is a Palestinian novelist and filmmaker from the Yarmouk camp in Syria, and currently resides in Sweden.

Fajr Yaqoub was born in Yarmouk camp in 1963 to Palestinian parents from Tira Haifa. He studied cinema and theater and graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Sofia in 1994. He became a member of the Swedish Writers Union in 2018. Some of his cinematic and fictional works won several awards, the most famous of which are the Katara Award for Arabic Fiction, which he won in 2021, and the Golden Falcon Award for Best Short Narrative Film at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival in the Netherlands in 2010. He participated as a jury member in many Among the festivals such as: Rabat Festival for Author Cinema, Oran International Arab Film Festival, Cairo Festival for Arab Media, Film Competition from the Emirates, Muscat International Film Festival and Dubai Arab Media Forum.


Novels
Revocation of the fox's light 2013
Mole on the bird's neck 2016
The Dark Note 2018, translated into English by Azza Hassoun, and released in Canada 2022 by Dar Al-Hadhurun.
Idle Hours - Asylum Diaries 2020
Neila Zarqa 2022

poetic collections
Sleeping on the general's balcony.
Reasons for Mary's High.
When her image is devoid of a mirror.
Plain whites.

Film criticism
Abbas Kiarostami - The Forbidden Fruit of Cinema.
Bab al-Maqam - a film diary.
Dream Delegate - Mai El Masry Cinema.
The Festival Man - Jean Chamoun Cinema

short films
Presented a number of short and documentaries, including:

Spring 1993 hoax
Mirage 1998
Labyrinth 2003

recording software
In addition, Fajr Yaqoub directed a four-episode documentary program entitled Cultural Alienation 2010.

 

Achievements and Awards

“Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction” in 2021, for the novel “Hours of Laziness - Diaries of Asylum.”
The Golden Falcon Award for Best Short Narrative Film at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival in the Netherlands 2010.
(Human Portrait) Award at the Baghdad International Film Festival 2013 for the film (Beirut Road 150,000 Kilometers).
Second prize at the Baghdad International Film Festival for the movie (One and Only) 2014.
Special Jury Prize at the Malmö Swedish Arab Film Festival 2014 for the movie (One and Only).

 

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