Personal Info
- Country of residence: Palestine
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Bushra Muhammad Abu Sharar (born in Gaza , Palestine ) is a Palestinian writer and lawyer . She is a member of the Egyptian Writers Union , the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Story Club , the Palestine Writers Union, the Arab Literature Group, and the Literature Club at Al Anfoushi Culture Palace.
study
She obtained her BA from the Faculty of Law at Alexandria University , then a Pre-Masters.
Working life
She published parts of her novels in the Tunisian Cultural Life magazine, the Jordanian Al- Rai newspaper, the Jordanian Al- Dustour newspaper , the Emirati weekly Al- Sada magazine , the Egyptian Literary News newspaper, the New Culture magazine , and the Taiki magazine specialized in women's literature.
In her first novel, Matches, she talks about the homeland, the diaspora, and the distance from the homeland . In her novel "Meteors of Wadi Ram", she included the blatant love for the Palestinian homeland, and she used prose and poetry in the novel. And her next novel was "From Here and There", in which she insisted on describing the suffering of the Palestinian people . The novel included a large number of problems facing the Palestinian people in their daily life, and it used many real personalities in Palestine in its narration. After that, she published the novel "Shams", and its heroine, "Shams", who felt that she was a child without a place, and no one cared about her, and could not find stores for children's clothes and their needs in Gaza. The child was not in the spotlight primarily, and from here "Shams" formed her world away about the spotlight. After that, she published two novels, “Nostalgia” and “A Moon at Noon,” then “The Gray Cart,” in which she described the good news of the lost years of her life and the longing for a permanent homeland and a homeland that was looted unwillingly. In her eighth novel, Dora, Bushra talks about love and nostalgia in general between homeland and romance. In her latest novel “The Cherry Letters”, the writer revolves in the novel between Syria, Palestine, Baghdad and Sana’a, observing the conflicts there, and the conflicts resulting from sectarianism, political ambitions and its daily victims of youth and children.
Her books
- Matches (a novel), 2003
- "Meteors from Wadi Ram" (novel), 2005
- "From Here and There" (novel), 2006
- "Sun" (novel), 2008
- Nostalgia (novel), 2010
- "Moon at Noon" (novel), 2010
- “Orange Seeds” (a short story collection), 2012
- Dora (novel), 2013
- "The Gray Wagon" (novel), 2015
- “From the Diaries of Ordinary Grief” (stories), 2016
- “The Jasmine Crown.. A Canaanite Song” (novel), 2017
- “Cherry Letters” (novel) 2018
Achievements and Awards
Awards and honors
- Ihsan Abdul Quddus Award for Short Story, for the novel “Shams”
- The Republic Prize, for the novel “Shams”
- Damascus Prize for Arabic Fiction, for the novel “Cities with a Taste of Gunpowder”
- Years in active
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