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- Country of residence: Syria
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Awad Saud Awad is a Palestinian writer, novelist and journalist living in Syria. He has 17 authors, three novels, 12 short story collections, and two books on Palestinian folklore. He is considered one of the most important Palestinian Arab novelists. He began writing at the end of the seventies and worked in the field of teaching, and contributed to the enrichment of cultural life through his articles and writings.
A member of the Arab Writers Union since 1989 as well as a member of the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists since 1979.
his life
Awad Saud Awad was born in Jubb Yusef, Safad District, Palestine, 1943. In 1948, his parents fled to Syria as a result of the 1948 war. He lived in Syria in Khan Al Shieh camp, where he studied primary and preparatory education, then studied secondary school in Damascus after that at the United Nations Agency for Teacher Education. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA in Deir Baalba in Homs, then began teaching and continued his studies and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in history from the Faculty of Arts, Damascus University in 1971. He is married to Mrs. Maryam Karim Al-Hamid, who helped encourage him to write according to him.
He worked as a teacher at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and resigned from it in 1996.
his literary life
Awad Saud Awad began literary and research writing at the end of the seventies of the last century and published his first short story collection “Journey to Andromedia Magazine” in 1981. He founded the Palestinian Folklore Center in Damascus and for ten years supervised the celebrations of the Palestinian Folklore Week in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He was director of the center from 1991 to 1994.
He also worked as a journalist for Al-Nafza magazine from 1990 to 1994. He contributed with a group of Syrian writers and intellectuals to the establishment of a literary forum held once a month in one of the homes of members committed to it, in which writers discuss the conditions of culture and their literary activities. These literary meetings have been organized for more than 30 years, with the poet Muhammad Khaled Ramadan, the writer Mahmoud Muflih Al-Bakr and other founders of the forum in Damascus. Al-Salman - Suleiman Al-Bouti - Dr. Khair Allah Saeed (Abu Suad) - Dr. Farhan Al-Yahya - the poet Fayez Al-Iraqi, the Kurdish researcher Dia Joan - and the poet Nuri Al-Jarrah before he traveled outside Syria, and a number of literary figures were hosted in Syria, including: Saeed Hourania - Khairy Al-Dhahabi - Ahmed Youssef Daoud - Fayez Khaddour - Dr. Ok Tizini and others.
He is one of the critics of the story and the novel in Syria, and his contributions in this field are significant, as the number of critical articles he wrote exceeded 500 articles, and he also made many contributions to the Palestinian folklore.
He also gave literary lectures in most Syrian cities and towns. It was published in Syrian, Palestinian and Arab newspapers and magazines. The number of his published articles exceeded 1500 articles between story, literary criticism and literary studies, as well as studies in the field of folklore in Palestine in particular and in the Levant region in general.
He published his stories, critical studies and articles in more than fifty newspapers or magazines, the most important of which are:
Literary week - literary position - Bayader - Arab writer - Palestinian writer - literary affairs - Syrian knowledge - Bahrain cultural - socialist studies - folk traditions - the heritage of the Libyan people - Bahraini folk culture - Kuwaiti statement - and Al Rafid issued in Sharjah.
He was also the head of the jury of the Manbij Short Story Competition at the level of Syria in 2009.
He was a rapporteur of the Society of Story and Fiction in the Arab Writers Union for the following years 2005-2006, 2009-2010, where he chaired its monthly meetings, oversaw its story festivals and narrative seminars, honored one of the association's flags annually, and issued a special issue of the short story in Syria in 2006.
Activities of the Story and Fiction Association
2005:
The Story Festival entitled “The Picture of the Other in the Short Story” was held on July 5 and 6, at the headquarters of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.
The annual symposium entitled “The Role of the Novelist in Change” on 12/13, at the headquarters of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.
Honoring the writer, Khairi Al-Dhahabi, at the Cultural Center in Mezzeh, on 23/11.
In 2006:
The Story Festival entitled “The Paradox and the Strangeness in the Short Story” was held in Homs on May 9 and 10, hosted by the Lebanese writer Dr. Ali Hijazi.
The novel’s symposium entitled “Multiple Discourse Forms” will be held on 6/9 with the guest of the symposium, the Jordanian writer Muhammad Obeidallah, at the headquarters of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.
Honoring the writer Hassan Hamid in the Al-Assad Library on December 6.
In 2009:
The Story Festival entitled "The Place in the Short Story - Palestine as a Model" on October 4, at the headquarters of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.
The Novel Symposium “Palestine in the Arabic Novel” was hosted by the Jordanian novelist Jamal Naji on 7 T.1, at the headquarters of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.
Honoring the writer Malik Sukour in Tartous on 12/9.
In 2010:
The Story Festival entitled “Imagination in the Short Story” on 2/6, at the headquarters of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.
The Novel Symposium entitled “Time in the Narrative Discourse” on 13th v 1. Hosting the Jordanian Subhi Fahmawi and the Palestinian Rashad Abu Shawar, at the headquarters of the Arab Writers Union in Damascus.
Honoring King Haj Obeid at the Cultural Center in Jableh on 13/11.
Critical articles and studies
Publishing articles and critical studies on some important literary names, including:
- Shawqi Baghdadi - Dr. Khalil Al-Mousa - Adel Abu Shanab - Jamal Naji - Walid Ikhlasi - Ibrahim Al-Khalil - Ghassan Kanafani - Faisal Hourani - Sobhi Fahmawi - Abdul Rahman Majid Al-Rubaie - Al-Tayeb Saleh - Muhammad Khaled Ramadan - Michael Eid - Mahmoud Darwish - Nizar Brik Henedy - Ahmed Youssef Daoud - Colette Khoury - Salem Al-Nahhas - Haider Haider - Amin Maalouf - Khairy Al-Dhahabi - Abdel Karim Nassif - Ahlam Mosteghanemi - Fayez Khaddour - Basem Abdo - Elias Anis Khoury - Yahya Khalaf - Anisa Abboud -
interviews
An interview with the writer Awad Saud, Awad, the interviewer, Salam Murad, The Literary Position, Volume 49, p. 594-2020, pp. 131-142..
The March No. 1572/2007 interview was conducted by Najla Bakro.
Annex to the Revolution 515/2006, an interview on the Story Festival.
Kuwaiti Politics - Issue 13268/2005 The interview was conducted by Duja'a Zina.
Al Noor Newspaper No. 226/2005 conducted by Duja'a Zina.
Al-Wahda Newspaper No. 5686/2003 The interview was conducted by Sawsan Mahmoud Kafa.
Time No. 1264/2002 The interview and dialogue were conducted by Ibrahim Al-Youssef.
Balsam No. 230/1994 conducted by Muhammad Khalil.
The New Yemeni Culture No. 1/year 18/1988 The interview was conducted by Abd Jaafar.
Resurrection number 13997 short story interview.
Achievements and Awards
Certificates of Appreciation and Honors
A certificate of appreciation from the Kuwaiti Writers Association for winning the short story competition for the sixth session of the Literary Oasis competition in Kuwait for the month of March 2017.
A certificate of thanks and appreciation from the Literary Oasis in Kuwait and the Kuwaiti Writers Association for winning the short story competition for the month of June 2016.
A certificate of thanks and appreciation from the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists for participating in the short story competition (Samira Azzam course) on 12-16-2010.
Two certificates of appreciation from the Director of Aleppo Culture and the President of Aleppo City Council for obtaining the third place in the Literary Generations Competition, which was held at the Directorate of Culture in Aleppo on October 18 and 19, 2010.
Manbij Prize for Intellectual Creativity for Encouraging Cultural Activity in the city of Manbij, issued by the Directorate of Culture in Aleppo in 2010.
A certificate of honor from the Director of the Russian Cultural Center (Alexander Sarimov) in Damascus in February 2010 for his contribution to supporting the short story journey and organizing its festivals in the center for a period of no less than four years.
Two certificates of appreciation from each of the Governor of Raqqa, and from Dar Al-Assad for Culture in Al-Thawra City, for their active participation in the Ninth Arab Story Forum in Al-Thawra City from 15 to 18-12-2008.
The Farm Prize in As-Suwayda Governorate for the novel “The Qandoul Flowers” published in 1997.
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