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is | Writer | |
Work field | Literature | |
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Birth | 1971 | |
Age | 54 years |
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Badriyya al-Shihhi (born 1971) is an Omani novelist, the first Omani woman writer to publish a novel. In the judgment of the Egyptian poet and journalist Ashraf Dali, al-Shihhi's 1999 novel "realized the birth of the real Omani novel".
Works
- Al-Tawaf haythu al-jamr [Treading Around the Embers]. Beirut: Al-Mu'assasa al-'Arabiyya lil-Dira wa-l-Nashr, 1999.