Zakaria Tamer

Zakaria Tamer was born in Damascus on 2 January 1931. He left school at thirteen to support his family and became a blacksmith in a workshop in the Bahsa district, without ceasing to read or to frequent the literary circles of Damascus and Beirut. A Palestinian poet urged him to send his texts to Youssef al-Khal, who published them in 1960 and made him known at once. He then worked at the ministries of Culture and Information, edited three magazines, one of them for children, took part in 1969 in the founding of the Arab Writers Union in Syria, and has lived in England since 1981.

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• Short storiesTigers on the Tenth Dayالنمور في اليوم العاشرZakaria Tamer · 1978Literature