Khalifa Hussein Mustafa

Khalifa Hussein Mustafa was born in 1944 in Tripoli, where he lived. After studying in London, he was a secondary-school teacher, then a journalist: London correspondent of the newspaper al-Jihad, he went on to edit the children's magazine al-Amal and the review Sanabil. Coming to the novel by way of the short story, he also wrote for young readers and for the theatre, and published critical essays; he is counted among the founders of the Libyan novel. He died in 2008.

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• Novelليالي نجمةKhalifa Hussein Mustafa · 1999not translated into EnglishLiterature