Hilal Chouman
Hilal Chouman (Arabic: هلال شومان) (born 1982) is a Lebanese novelist and writer. He was born in Beirut and studied communications and electronics engineering at Jâmi'at Bâyrut Al-Arabiya. He then obtained an MSc in aerospace communication systems and satellite communications. He now lives and works in Toronto.[1]
Writing
[edit]Literary scholars have described Chouman's writing as Post–Cold War era or post-Lebanese Civil War, with emphasis on the ordinary or mundane.[2][3] Chouman himself disagrees with the designations of war or post-war based on time of publication.[4] His writing also features more contemporary life in Beirut.[5]
Novels
[edit]- Stories of Sleep (2008)
- Napolitana (2010)
- Limbo Beirut (2012) - translated by Anna Ziajka Stanton and nominated for the PEN Translation Prize (2017) and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize (2017)
- Once Upon a Time, Tomorrow (2016)
- Sorrow in My Heart (2022)
References
[edit]- ^ Bio
- ^ Dallal, Ziad; الدلّال, زياد (2021). "Chronicles of the Eternal Present - تدوين الحاضر الأبدي: Literary Montage in Dhāt and Kāna ghadan". Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (41): 140–158. ISSN 1110-8673.
- ^ Hayek, Ghenwa (2017). "Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels". The Arab Studies Journal. 25 (1): 8–29. doi:10.2307/26528951. ISSN 1083-4753.
- ^ "CHIT-CHAT". Mada Masr. November 22, 2019.
- ^ Hayek, Ghenwa (2017). "Beirut". In Tambling, J. (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. pp. 587–597.
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