Saeeds new world: Letter to Waffiya

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Letter to Waffiya

Letter to Waffiya M, Saeed. Like a deep-red sunflower, his blood spread out beneath his head. I woke up at six in the morning, but already the Dubai summer heat and humidity were rattling my being and mystifying my existence. They were transforming me into a trembling jelly that hovered between... Sign in to see full entry.

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I am a well known Iraqi writer, with more than 20 books published, one of them has been translated to English Language in London 2003, I granted a political asylum 7 years ago. I currently live in Chicago and write stories, articles, and novels. My first book, Port Saeed and Other Stories, was published in 1957 in Baghdad when I was 19 years old. Since that time I have written more than 15 books of fiction (4 of which were lost or destroyed in Iraq) as well as hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. My novel, Bin Barka Ally (Zankat Bin Barka), written in 1970, was published in 1993 in Amman, Jordan and won the Best Iraqi Novel Award the same year with over 23 critical literary reviews and articles written about it. Also, The End of the Daylight, published in 1996 by Alhiat House (Beirut, Lebanon), won the Story Club First Place Award in Cairo, Egypt. The last novel of mine Two Lost Souls, been translated to English language lately, now I have many short stories ready to publ

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