Hassan Daoud

Lebanese writer and journalist

Hassan Daoud (Arabic: حسن داوود) (born 1950) is a Lebanese writer and journalist.^[1] Originally from the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon, he moved to Beirut as a child with his family.^[2] He studied Arabic literature at university. During the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975, he worked as a journalist, a profession he has pursued ever since. He served as a correspondent for al-Hayat for 11 years. At present he edits Nawafez, the cultural supplement of the Beiruti newspaper al-Mustaqbal.^[3]

Daoud has published eight novels and two volumes of short stories. As of 2011, five of the novels have been translated into English. Daoud has also been translated into French and German (by Hartmut Faehndrich). His work has appeared in Banipal magazine.

Awards and honors

2015 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature winner for No Road to Paradise^[4]

Works

The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine (translated by Randa Jarrar)
Borrowed Time (translated by Michael K Scott)
The House of Mathilde (translated by Peter Theroux)
180 Sunsets (longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010)
The Penguin's Song (translated by Marilyn Booth)
No Road to Paradise (translated by Marilyn Booth)

References

^ Author profile on Banipal website
^ Essay by Hassan Daoud in the New York Times Magazine, 27 August 2008
^ "Profile on the English PEN World Atlas website". Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
^ Mohammed Saad (December 12, 2015). "Lebanese writer Hassan Daoud wins 2015 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature". Al-Ahram. Retrieved December 13, 2015.