English

A Syrian Novel

Writing Love

Khalil Sweileh

Arabic

حفرة الأعمى

عزلة الحلزون

اختبار الندم

دع عنك لومي

Fiction

Poetry

Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

Biography or Memoir

Children's Book

Nonfiction

Palestine

Lebanon

Egypt

Syria

Iraq

Morocco

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Algeria

Türkiye

Iran

Jordan

Sudan

Yemen

Libya

United Arab Emirates

Kuwait

Oman

Bahrain

Art and Art History

Gastronomy

Feminism and Gender

Architecture and Urbanism

Philosophy

Anthropology and Society

Politics

Journalism and Media Studies

Psychology

Environment, Health, and Science

Literary Theory and Criticism

Religion and Spirituality

Business and Finance

Music

Political, Cultural, and Social History

Khalil Sweileh (Arabic: خليل صويلح; born 1959) is a Syrian journalist and novelist. He was born in the mainly Kurdish city Al-Hasakah in northern Syria and studied literature at Damascus University. He has since worked for a number of cultural publications in various capacities.
Sweileh received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2009 for his novel Writing Love, translated by Alexa Firat and published in English in 2012. In his acceptance speech, Sweileh mentioned that as a village boy, his chance disc...

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