Alia Mamdouh

Alia Mamdouh was born in Baghdad in 1944. A graduate in psychology of Mustansiriya University in 1971, she worked in the press, edited the journal al-Rasid from 1975 to 1980 and in 1973 published a first collection of short stories. She left Iraq in 1982, never to return, lived in Beirut and in Morocco, then settled in Paris. In 2004 she received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for a later novel, and another of her books was a finalist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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• NovelNaphtaleneحبات النفتالينAlia Mamdouh · 1986Literature