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

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 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.

Career

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] His poem "If You Are Syrian These Days …" was translated into English by Ghada Alatrash and published by literary magazine ArabLit in 2023.[3]

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fadi Azzam". International Prize for Arab Fiction. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  2. ↑ "Profile". Archived from the original on 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  3. ↑ "Poetry Revisited: Fadi Azzam's 'If You Are Syrian These Days …'". ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY. 2023-02-15. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
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