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Habib Abdulrab Sarori
Habib Abdulrab Sarori is a Yemeni novelist, writer and professor, born in Aden in 1956. His literary works include a novel, La Reine Étripée (1998), in French and ten novels in Arabic, a collection of short stories and a book of poetry.
An extract from his novel, The Bird of Destruction (2005), appeared in English translation in Banipal 36 – Literature in Yemen Today. His novel Bint Suslov (Suslov's Daughter) was longlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and published by Darf Publishers in English translation by Elisabeth Jacquette in 2017. An interview with Qantara.de is about this novel.
In Banipal 56 (Summer 2016) on Generation '56, Habib Abdulrab contributed a Self-Portrait
and an Excerpt from his novel The Hoopoe’s Report, translated by William M Hutchins.
In 2019 he won the Katara award for the Arabic novel for his novel Wahi. He has also published three cultural books in Arabic, as well as numerous literary and cultural articles in papers such as Le Monde and Libération.
After pursuing higher studies in applied mathematics in France, Habib Abdulrab Sarori obtained a master’s degree in Informatics from the University of Paris 6 in 1983, followed by a PhD from the University of Rouen in 1987, and finally in 1992 he was awarded Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR, Accreditation to Direct Research).
Since 1992 he has been a professor in the Mathematical and Software Engineering Department of the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rouen at the University of Normandy.
He has published numerous scientific papers over the last four decades and is also the author of textbooks in computer science.
In the early months of 2023 (January to March) he was the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow at St Aidan's College, University of Durham, and was able to start work on a new novel. Towards the end of the Fellowship, he participated in Banipal's Grand Evening of Literature on 9 March at Newcastle's Lit and Phil Library which celebrated 25 years of Banipal translating and publishing contemporary Arab literature.
For more about Habib Abdulrab Sarori,
go to his website: https://www.habibabdulrab.com
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 36 - Literature in Yemen Today (2009)
Banipal 56 - Generation '56 (Summer 2016)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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