Name Alawiya Sobh Role Writer | Education Lebanese University | |
Inside Lebanon--Novelist Alawiya Sobh
Alawiya Sobh (Arabic: علوية صبح) (born 1955) is a Lebanese writer and author.
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Life and career
Born in Beirut, Sobh studied English & Arabic Literature at the Lebanese University. Upon graduation in 1978, she pursued a career in teaching. She also began publishing articles and short stories, at first in An-Nida newspaper and then in An-Nahar. After a spell as cultural editor, she became editor-in-chief of Al-Hasnaa, a popular Arabic women's magazine, in 1986. In the early 1990s, she became editor-in-chief of women's magazine Snob Al-Hasnaa’ and remains to be its editor-in-chief to date.
In 2009, Sobh served on the judging panel of the Beirut39 competition.
Works
Short Stories
Novels
Translated Works
Maryam: Keeper of Stories was translated into English by Seagull Books, into French by Gallimard and into German by Suhrkamp.
Dunya was translated into Italian by Mondadori.
It's Called Love was translated into Italian by Mondadori and into Romanian by Polirom.
Reception
Sobh's work has been critically acclaimed. For her literary accomplishments and innovative writing, Sobh received the Sultan Qaboos prize in Oman in 2007. Her novels Dunya and It's Called Love were long-listed for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2008 and 2010, respectively. In 2016, an eponymous award dubbed the "Alawiya Sobh Literary critique Award" was launched at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan for participants whose critiques center around Sobh's work.