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Said Houraniyya

Died in 1994

Said Houraniyya was born in Damascus in 1929 and studied there, up to a degree in Arabic literature. He taught in Syria, as far as Hasakah and Suwayda, and in Lebanon, writing short stories that made him one of the voices of realism in his country. He then lived for a long time in Moscow, until 1974, rendered Russian, Soviet and German-language authors into Arabic, then returned to Syria, where he served the Ministry of Culture until his death in 1994.

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