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Salma Dabbagh, a British-Palestinian writer, born in 1970. She became famous in 2011 after the publication of her novel “Out of It” published by Bloombury, a novel that revolves around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This novel was nominated for the “Guardian Book of the Year” award in 2011 and 2012.
About her life and work
Salma was born in Scotland , to a Palestinian father from Jaffa and an English mother. She is now a full-time writer. She has spent large periods of her life between Kuwait, France, Egypt and Bahrain, and has made annual visits to Palestine. Before focusing on writing, she worked as a human rights lawyer in London, during which she made frequent visits to the West Bank and Cairo . Since 2004, she has written short stories, which she has published in New Writing 15 and Story: Short Stories from a Palestinian Woman.
Her works
Her short stories have been published in anthologies by Granta and International PEN. Her work has been nominated for a number of awards and was a finalist in the Fish Short Story Prize at Beirut-Paris-Beirut (2005) and Aubergine (2004). In 2014, her radio play The Brick was broadcast on the BBC.
Her novel “Out of Gaza” was published in 2011, and its Arabic translation was published under the title “Gaza Under the Skin” in 2015 by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing. It is a novel that depicts current family life in Gaza , transporting the reader from Palestine to London and then to the Gulf. The British newspaper The Observer referred to the novel as “a striking and engaging work that tells of uprooting and belonging, betrayal and treachery and loyalty, and the courage that redefines Palestine and its people.” She has collaborated with some filmmakers in writing feature films, and these works have been translated into Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and Italian.
Her fame
The Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifa said about her, “Salma Al-Dabbagh represents a new generation of female writers who are not content with looking at the homeland and its cause from one perspective and one dimension. With her multi-dimensional and multi-angled experience, she transports us to atmospheres we have lived and others we have not lived. She opens the screen wide for us to see what she sees and to be optimistic or pessimistic. In both cases, we become more curious and wonder about the parts of the crumbling homeland, and together we discover that the image has more than one face.”
The British newspaper The Observer wrote about the novel, “It is a striking and engaging work that tells of uprooting and belonging, betrayal and treachery and loyalty, and the courage that redefines Palestine and its people.”
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