Hassan Daoud

Abir Hamdar (University of Durham)

Ed. by Ziad Elmarsafy, King's College London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.3: Middle-Eastern Arabic Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary.
Vol. editors: Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 1950
Activity 1975-ongoing

Places

Born in Lebanon
Active in Lebanon

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Journalist

Resources

Daoud's Works

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One of Lebanon’s most successful and celebrated authors, Hassan Daoud belongs to a generation of writers who emerged during the country’s civil war (1975-1990). In fact, Daoud embarked on his writing career in the early 1980’s at the age of 33. He often recounts that he had shown his first prose work, written in a classical rhetorical style, to his poet-journalist friend, Abbas Beydoun, who commented: “Well, my friend, this is all very clever, but it makes my belly hurt” (qtd. in Seigneurie, 40-1). From then onwards, he produced an impressive body of literary work that has been translated into several languages and that has placed him at the center of the Lebanese literary scene today.

Born in 1950 as Hassan Zebib, Daoud comes from a Shiite Muslim family who lived in the south of

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Citation: Hamdar, Abir. "Hassan Daoud". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 September 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13085, accessed 23 November 2024.]