A Sky So Close to Us

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Shahla Ujayli is a Syrian writer, born in 1976. She holds a doctorate in Modern Arabic Literature and Cultural Studies from Aleppo University in Syria and currently teaches Modern Arabic Literature at the University of Aleppo and the American University in Madaba, Jordan. She is the author of a short-story collection entitled The Mashrabiyya (2005) and two novels: The Cat’s Eye (2006), which won the Jordan State Award for Literature in 2009, and Persian Carpet (2013).

She has also published a number of critical studies, including The Syrian Novel: Experimentalism and Theoretical Categories (2009), Cultural Particularity in the Arabic Novel (2011) and Mirror of Strangeness: Articles on Cultural Criticism (2006). In 2017, she won the Al Multaqa Prize for her short-story collection The Bed of the King’s Daughter.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Shahlaa Ujaylai, Shahla Ujayli, Shahla/ Hartman Ujayli
• Mitarbeit: Michelle Hartman (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Interlink pub group
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.10.2018
• EAN: 9781623719838
• ISBN: 978-1-62371-983-8
• Abmessung: 132 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur