Yahya Yakhlif ( Arabic: يحيى يخلف) (born 1944) is a Palestinian writer and a novelist. [1] He was born in Samakh, a Palestinian village that was abandoned during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, when Yakhlif was 4 years old. Consequently, Yakhlif and his family became displaced refugees. [2]
As an author and novelist, Yakhlif has published several novels and short story collections. His novel about the last days of Samakh, A Lake Beyond the Wind, was translated into English by Christopher Tingley and May Jayyusi and published by Interlink Books in 1998 in its Emerging Voices series. Ma' Al Sama, a more recent novel, also explores the condition of Palestinian exile. Ma' Al Sama was nominated for the 2009 Arabic Booker Prize. [3]
References
- ^ Profile in IPAF website
- ^ "Yahya Yakhlif | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ "Ma' Al Sama' | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
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Yahya Yakhlif ( Arabic: يحيى يخلف) (born 1944) is a Palestinian writer and a novelist. [1] He was born in Samakh, a Palestinian village that was abandoned during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, when Yakhlif was 4 years old. Consequently, Yakhlif and his family became displaced refugees. [2]
As an author and novelist, Yakhlif has published several novels and short story collections. His novel about the last days of Samakh, A Lake Beyond the Wind, was translated into English by Christopher Tingley and May Jayyusi and published by Interlink Books in 1998 in its Emerging Voices series. Ma' Al Sama, a more recent novel, also explores the condition of Palestinian exile. Ma' Al Sama was nominated for the 2009 Arabic Booker Prize. [3]
References
- ^ Profile in IPAF website
- ^ "Yahya Yakhlif | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ "Ma' Al Sama' | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
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