- Hoda Barakat
Hoda Barakat ( _ar. هدى بركات) (born 1952) is an acclaimed Lebanese novelist who lived much of her life in
Beirut and later moved toParis , where she now resides. Her works, written in Arabic, have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Dutch, Greek and German. [http://www.festivaletteratura.it/en/archivio/schedaautore.php?autid=622 Hoda Barakat] (Festivaletteratura) Accessed:March 4 ,2007 .]Biography
Barakat was raised in Bsharré, Lebanon, where she lived until she moved to Beirut to study French Literature at the
Lebanese University . She graduated in 1975. In 1975-76, she lived in Paris where she worked on a PhD, but decided to return home when theLebanese Civil War started. During this period she worked as a teacher, translator and journalist. It is also during this war that all of her later works are set. In 1985, she published her first work a collection of short stories called "Za’irat" (Women Visitors). She moved to Paris in 1989 and has lived there to the present. Here she published a series of major works including "Hajar al-Dahik" ("The Stone of Laughter", 1990) and "Ahl el-Hawa" (People of Love, 1993). In 2004, she visited theUK on the first Banipal Live UK tour. [ [http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/contributor.php?conid=221 Hoda Barakat] (Banipal Magazine) Accessed:March 4 ,2007 .]Works
Her first work "Hajar al-Dahik" ("The Stone of Laughter"), which is the first Arabic work to have a gay man as its main character, won the Al-Naqid prize. Her third novel, "Harit al-miyah" ("The Tiller of Waters"), won the Naghib Mahfus 2000 award. Her other works include "Ahl el-Hawa" (People of Love), "Hayatt w-alaam Hammad ben Silana", "Bus al-awadem", and "Ya Salaam". [ [http://awsa.net/arabwomen.htm#Hoda%20Barakat Hoda Barakat] (Awsa.Net) Accessed:
March 4 ,2007 .]External links
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