Fadi Azzam

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Fadi Azzam (Arabic: فادي عزام; born 1973, As-Suwayda, Syria) is a Syrian novelist.

Early life and education[]

He was born in As-Suwayda in southern Syria in 1973 and went to university in Damascus, graduating in 1998.^[1] He has published often in Arabic newspapers and magazines, and he reported on arts and culture for Al Quds al-Arabi from 2007 to 2009.^[1] He has also worked with visual media, such as documentaries and cartoons.

In 2012, his debut novel Sarmada, about a Druze community in Syria, was longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize.^[2] He was longlisted again in 2018 for his novel Bait Huddud (Huddud's house).^[1]

Works[]

• سرمدة : رواية (Sarmada, a novel). Thaqāfah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2011. ISBN 9789948446231
  • Translated into English as Sarmada by Adam Talib (Arabia Books, 2011). ISBN 9781906697341
• رحلة الى قبور ثلاثة شعراء : آرثر رامبو، فرانز كافكا، فيرناندو بيسوا، برفقة رياض الصالح الحسين (A trip to the graves of three poets, Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Fernando Pessoa, accompanied by Riad Al-Saleh Al-Hussein). Jadāwil lil-Nashr wa-al-Tarjamah wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2016. ISBN 9786144183267
• بيت حدد : رواية (Hudud's house, a novel). Dār al-Ādāb, 2017. ISBN 9789953895512
• الوصايا (The wills). Hachette Antoine, 2018. ISBN 9786144691649

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