Hilal Chouman
Lebanese author and novelist
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| Intro | Lebanese author and novelist | |||
| Places | Lebanon | |||
| is | Writer Novelist Author | |||
| Work field | Literature | |||
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| Birth | 1982, Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon | |||
| Age | 43 years | |||
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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.
Chouman has written four novels in Arabic:
- 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)