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- Country of residence: Iraq
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Biography:
He received his primary and secondary education in Palestine and then joined Cambridge University in England. He moved to work in Iraqi universities to teach English literature, where he became closely acquainted with the intellectual elite and established strong relationships with the most important literary figures such as Al-Sayyab and Al-Bayati.
He is considered one of the most productive and diverse Arab writers, as he dealt with the novel, poetry, criticism, and especially translation. He also served literature as an administrator in publishing institutions. He was known in some Palestinian circles by the nickname “Abu Sudeir,” which he used in many of his articles, whether in English or Arabic. He produced many novels and authored and translated books in which he introduced the most prominent Western writers to the Arab reader.
His translations of Shakespeare are perhaps the most important Arabic translations, as well as his translations of the best Western literature, such as his translation of the novel “The Sound and the Fury,” for which the American writer William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature. No less important than translating this novel is the important introduction to it, and without this introduction, Arabic readers would have found it very difficult to understand it.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's novels can provide a powerfully suggestive image of the depth of his people's tragedy, albeit in his own way that sees no flaw or shortcoming in presenting a vision that emanates from the eyes of a sensitive and aware intellectual, capable of truly understanding the spirit of his people, but at the same time capable of understanding the world around him, and understanding how they view life and developments. He died in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 12, 1994.
Novel production:
• “July in the City”, 1946
• “Fishermen in a Narrow Street”, 1960
• “Closed Orbit”, 1964
• “The Ship”, 1970
• “Searching for Walid Masoud”, 1978
• “The Pain of the Sun”, 1978
• “A World Without Maps”, 1982
• “Fire and Essence”, 1982
• “The Other Rooms”, 1986
• “Art, Dream and Action”, 1986
• “Reflections on a Marble Building”, 1989
• “Masks of Truth... Masks of Imagination”, 1992
• “The Diaries of Sarab Afan”, 1992
Other products:
• “Freedom and the Flood” (a critical study), 1982
• “Race and Beginnings from the Letter Y” (a collection of short stories), 1989
• “The First Well” (an autobiography), 1993
• “Princess Street – Chapters from an Autobiography”, 2005
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