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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Rashad Mahmoud Abu Shawar is a Palestinian storyteller and novelist, born in 1942 in the village of Zikrin, Hebron District, Palestine. He joined the ranks of the Palestinian resistance and held several positions in the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the Palestinian Writer magazine, issued by the Union of Arab Writers and Palestinian Journalists in Beirut. Member of the Story and Novel Society.
From his writings
Memory of the Past Days - Stories - Beirut 1970.
Days of War and Death - a novel - Beirut 1973.
A green house with a tiled roof - Stories - Baghdad 1974.
Crying on the lover’s chest - a novel - Beirut 1974.
Muhr Al Barari - Stories - Beirut 1974.
Trees do not grow on notebooks - Stories - Beirut 1975.
The Lovers - a novel - Beirut 1978.
Jasmine Perfume - Stories for Children - Beirut 1978.
Land of Honey - a story for boys - Beirut 1979.
Oh Beirut - Articles - Damascus 1983.
The Lord did not rest on the seventh day - 1986 novel.
Death is singing
He also published a volume of narrative works in 1999 by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing
awards
His novel “The Lovers” (1977) was considered among the 100 most important novels in the Arab world. It won the “Mahmoud Saif al-Din al-Irani” award. He also won the Palestine Appreciation Award for the year 2019.
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