Hoda Barakat

Hoda Barakat was born in 1952 in Lebanon and grew up in Bcharré, in the north of the country. A graduate in French literature of the Lebanese University in 1975, she left to prepare a doctorate in Paris, studies that the civil war interrupted. Back in Lebanon, she was a teacher, translator and journalist during the war, then settled in Paris in 1989. She writes in Arabic; she received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize, then, in 2019, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for Barīd al-layl.

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• NovelThe Stone of Laughterحجر الضحكHoda Barakat · 1990Literature