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- Country of residence: Palestine
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The writer Fatima Diab was born in Tamra in the Galilee in 1951. She is a novelist characterized by courage and daring in writing, and a creative stature that occupies an advanced position on the map of fiction and nonfiction literature in the Palestinian interior.
She finished her primary education in her city and received her secondary education in Nazareth.
She practiced story writing at an early age. Her debut novel, A Journey on a Train of the Past, was published in 1973. Her play, “Sirk in Bear” won the Karma House Theater Award in 1978. She won the Literary Creativity Award.
Some of her texts have been translated into other languages, including Hebrew and English. I wrote for children songs, stories and lyrical paintings - learning to draw by numbers.
Achievements and Awards
She received many certificates of appreciation and honors. She has extensive journalistic interests, and she tackled women's issues and concerns through regular weekly columns in "Al-Sinara" and "Kol Al-Arab" newspapers - she worked as an editor in "Lilac" magazine. Her journalistic activity focused on Arab women.
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