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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Mahmoud Lutfi Ahmad Al-Rimawi (born in Beit Rima on October 21, 1948) is a Jordanian/Palestinian storyteller, novelist, and journalist, residing in Amman, Jordan. He received his education in Jericho, Jerusalem, and Beirut, where he studied for two years at Beirut Arab University / Department of Arabic Language, then he dropped out of university studies, shunning it and devoting himself to journalism, which he practiced in Beirut and Kuwait, then in Amman, Jordan, as a writer and political commentator in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Rai for twenty years (1987). /2007). Then he worked as editor-in-chief of the Jordanian Al-Sijil newspaper for two years (2007/2008). In 2010, he published the cultural website “Jab Qawsin”, which is the first website of its kind in Jordan.
Al-Rimawi published 13 collections of short stories, starting in 1972, and then followed them up with several collections of short stories. His novel Man Yones al-Sayyida reached the long list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Booker) in 2010.
His writings
Nudity in the Night Desert (Short Stories), Ministry of Culture and Information, Baghdad, 1972
Al-Jarh Al-Shamali (Short Stories), Dar Ibn Rushd, Beirut, 1980.
Planet of Apples and Salts (Short Stories), Dar Al-Karmel, Amman, Jordan, 1987.
Slow beating on a small drum (short stories), New House of Culture, Cairo 1990.
Strangers (stories) Ministry of Culture / Amman, Jordan 1993.
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