Faris Zarzur

Faris Zarzur was born in Damascus around 1929, in a working-class neighbourhood, into a very poor family: his parents were illiterate and his father bartered in the villages of the Hauran. Educated at the Quranic school and then at a religious school, he taught for a time in the Jazira, passed the baccalaureate in 1949 and entered the Military Academy, marked by a German novel of the Great War. An officer, he travelled to Lebanon, Iraq and Kuwait, served as an attaché in Egypt, and left the army at the beginning of the union with Egypt. He died in Damascus in January 2003; only two writers followed his coffin.

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• Novelحسن جبلFaris Zarzur · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature