Haji Jaber

Last updated

Haji Jabir (born 1976) is an Eritrean novelist and journalist. He was born in the city of Massawa on the Red Sea coast. Writing in Arabic, he has published five novels until 2021. With the nomination of Black Foam (2018), Jabir became the first Eritrean novelist to be longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. [1]

Contents

Life and career

Jaber’s literary work deals with the past and present of Eritrea, its diaspora and the wider Horn of Africa. His novel Black Foam, based on real events, tells the fictional story of a group of Ethiopian Jews, who emigrate to Israel to escape poverty and in search of a better life. [2] In 2023, it was published in an English translation by Sawad Hussain and Marcia Lynx Qualey. [2]

Jaber lives in Doha, Qatar, and works as a journalist for Al Jazeera. He has also taught courses for creative writing at the Al Jazeera Media Institute. [3] In an interview with ArabLit magazine, he said:

I write about the people of my country, because they are a persecuted and suffering people, and so my novels come in this manner. I would like to write far from politics, but I would betray these people if I turned away from their issues. In Eritrea, we are still living outside history, enslaved to an oppressive regime in various forms, and all of this is considered the meaning of “homeland,” which is innocent.

— Haji Jaber, Eritrean writer, [4]

Works

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tayeb Salih</span> Sudanese novelist and short story writer (1929–2009)

Tayeb Salih was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO. He is best known for his novel Season of Migration to the North, considered to be one of the most important novels in Arabic literature. His novels and short stories have been translated into English and more than a dozen other languages.

Sudanese literature consists of both oral as well as written works of fiction and nonfiction that were created during the cultural history of today's Republic of the Sudan. This includes the territory of what was once Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the independent country's history since 1956 as well as its changing geographical scope in the 21st century.

Alia Mamdouh is an Iraqi novelist, author, and journalist living in exile in Paris, France.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sinan Antoon</span> Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator

Sinan Antoon, is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator. He has been described as "one of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world." Alberto Manguel described him as "one of the great fiction writers of our time.” He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mansoura Ez-Eldin</span> Egyptian novelist and journalist

Mansoura Ez-Eldin is an Egyptian novelist and journalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ali al-Muqri</span> Yemeni novelist and writer

Ali al-Muqri is a Yemeni novelist and writer. Two of his novels - Black Taste, Black Odour and The Handsome Jew - have been long-listed for the Arab Booker Prize. He also received a special commendation from the jury of the 2015 French Prize for Arabic Literature, for his novel Ḥurma, translated into French by Khaled Osman and Ola Mehanna.

Rabee Jaber is a Lebanese novelist and journalist, born in Beirut, Lebanon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">May Telmissany</span> Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic

May Telmissany is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic. She teaches Arabic studies and cinema at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jabbour Douaihy</span> Lebanese writer (1949–2021)

Jabbour Douaihy was a critically-acclaimed Lebanese writer, translator, and professor of literature. His novels were nominated four times for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and he has also published translations, short story collections, and children's books. His work, mostly originally in Arabic, has been translated several languages, including English and French.

Mansour El Souwaim is a Sudanese writer and journalist. He has published both novels and short stories. He was invited to join the first IPAF Nadwa as well as the Beirut39 young Arab writers project, and has received international recognition through translations of his novels into English and French.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohammed Hasan Alwan</span> Saudi Arabian novelist (born 1979)

Mohammed Hasan Alwan is a Saudi Arabian novelist. He was born in Riyadh and studied Computer Information Systems at King Saud University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 2002. He also obtained an MBA from the University of Portland, Oregon in 2008 and Ph.D from Carleton University, Ottawa in 2016.

Fadi Azzam is a Syrian novelist and poet.

Hammour Ziada is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. Before, he had been writing for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudan. Two of his novels were selected for Arabic literary awards and appeared in English translations.

Najwa Bin Shatwan is a Libyan academic and novelist, the first Libyan to ever be shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction. She has authored four novels: Waber Al Ahssina ; Madmum Burtuqali ; Zareeb Al-Abeed ; and Roma Termini, in addition to several collections of short stories, plays and contributions to anthologies. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by Hay Festival’s Beirut 39 project (2009). In 2018, she was chosen from hundreds of Arab writers for the 2018 Banipal Writing Fellowship Residency at the University of Durham and in 2020, she was chosen to co-lead a series of creative writing workshops in Sharjah for Arab writers. Also, she was chosen as a member of jury in various literary awards/grants.

Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin is a Sudanese fiction writer with roots in Darfur in western Sudan, whose literary work was banned in Sudan in 2011. Since 2012, he has lived in exile in Austria and later in France. He is mostly known for his novels The Messiah of Darfur and The Jungo, translated from the original Arabic into French, English, Spanish and German.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leila Al Mutawa</span> Bahraini novelist

Leila Al Mutawa is a Bahraini novelist and journalist. She is known for writing novels centering frankly on the female perspective in a society with strong fundamentalist elements.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ashraf Fagih</span> Author and academic

Ashraf E. Fagih(Pronounced: "Fa-geeh") is a Saudi author and academic. He is one of the few notable science fiction authors in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

A Suspended Life is a novel written by a Palestinian novelist Atef Abu Saif. The novel was first released in 2015 by Al-Ahliya Publishing and Distribution House in Amman. It entered the final "short" list of the 2015 World Prize for Arabic Fiction, known as the "Arab Booker Prize".

<i>ArabLit</i> Literary online magazine and publisher

ArabLit is an online magazine for information about translations of Arabic literature into English. The editors also publish ArabLit Quarterly as a print and electronic magazine, books with selected contemporary Arabic literary works and a daily newsletter about current publications of different genres of Arabic literature in English translation.

Rima Bali is a Syrian writer of contemporary Arabic fiction. The author of four novels, she is mostly known for having been shortlisted for the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) based in Abu Dhabi and mentored by the Booker Prize Foundation in London.

References

  1. ↑ "Haji Jaber | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  2. 1 2 "Eritrean Novelist Haji Jaber: On Writing the Stories of the Falasha Jews". Arablit & Arablit Quarterly. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  3. ↑ "Haji Jabir Abubeker | Al Jazeera Media Institute". institute.aljazeera.net. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  4. ↑ "Eritrean Novelist Haji Jaber: On Writing the Stories of the Falasha Jews". Arablit & Arablit Quarterly. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  5. ↑ "Haji Jabir presenta in prima nazionale "Fuga dalla piccola Roma"". ForlìToday (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-04-05.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.