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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Samia Nadim Hassan Al-Atout is a
Jordanian writer and storyteller of Palestinian origin. She started her journey
with writing fiction since the mid-1980s, when she wrote her first collection
of short stories in 1984, and it was published in 1986 entitled (Walls
Absorbing Sound), and it received wide echoes at the time, and it formed an
incentive for her to continue writing. After that, she published a number of
collections of stories and participated in joint collections of poetry and
stories. I distinguish her narrative experience in her unique style of
formulating the short narrative sentence, which relies on action and movement
most of the time and on condensation and brevity in the language. Most of her
stories are distinguished by poetic language and images without straying from
the fun of storytelling. In her works, the writer focused on developing
narrative styles and diversifying narration methods and topics. The storyteller
Samia Al-Atoot is considered one of the pioneers in the art of the very short
story and modern narrative methods in Jordan and the Arab world. Contents 1 Her
life 2 Her literary career 3 Her works
her life
Samia Al-Atout was born in the city
of Nablus in 1957, where she lived her early childhood, and the June 1967 war
had a great impact on her life. She received her education in the schools of
the city, starting with the Sisters of St. Joseph until the second grade of
primary school, then in Cordoba and Fatimid schools, and she finished high
school in the Aishiya school. After that, she moved to study at Al-Mustansiriya
University in Baghdad - Iraq, where in 1979 she obtained a bachelor's degree in
contemporary mathematics, with distinction. After graduating in 1979, she
worked at the Arab Bank, in Amman, in the field of information management as a
programmer, then as a chief systems analyst, in research and editing, and in
human resource management, until 2005. She also worked as an editor for the
science and life page in Al-Dustour newspaper from 1990 to 1999. I also worked
in the Jordanian Ministry of Culture on a project.....,
her literary career
Features of literary talent appeared
on her since childhood, as she was interested in poetry and wrote her first
poem after the death of her father in 1971. Since then, she has lived in the
worlds of books to look at the translated classics of the mothers of books and
her readings varied between poetry by the poets of the occupied land, and the
existential philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, which were
greatly influenced by it, as well as Marxist philosophy and others. The fictional
writings of Samia Al-Atoot were distinguished by the diversity in her narrative
writing methods, and the adaptation of images and poetic phrases in her
stories. Her stories ranged from short to very short. The collection (Walls
Absorbing Sound) was the first collection of stories that I completed and
published in 1986, in which poetic language and graceful narrative sentences
appeared, and dealt with issues of alienation and social changes affecting
cities and people. Through this group, she was able to find a privileged place
for her in fictional writing. As for her second group (Female Rituals), it
constituted a quantum leap in her writing, as her interest in women's issues
increased, and human alienation in a world whose harsh features began to become
evident with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The manuscript group in the
competition of intellectual creativity among Arab youth, to get the first place
in it. Writer Samia Al-Atout continued to develop her tools and methods in the
subsequent collections, which are Mozart's Troubles, Sedition Pants, The Ringer
(The Female Spider) and her last collection (Picasso Café). In her stories, she
moved to new levels in terms of narration methods and topics, so she dealt with
contemporary scientific issues such as cloning and genetic engineering, women's
issues and political issues, the most important of which is the issue of
Palestine in all her collections. The suffering of women in the Arab world also
had a large space in her writings. Her writings were characterized by high
professionalism within an upward line of development in the field of the short
story. According to the Egyptian philosopher Dr. Anis Mansour, she is about
female rituals (the tools of strong performance and beautiful art were
completed for her, the quick phrase, the flying meanings, the close goal, and
the painful joke do not miss it), and according to the Moroccan critic Muhammad
Moatasem (a dazzling writer in her smooth way of storming the inner worlds of
her fictional fictional characters in (The Bell Ringer) and skillful in
exposing the behavioral contradiction of contemporary man). During that period,
she also worked as a writer of political and literary articles for Al-Dustour
and Al-Rai newspapers, and for other platforms. She was a member of the Poetry
Committee of the Jerash Festival for the years 1990-1991, and a member of the
Jordanian Writers Association, the General Union of Arab Writers, and the
Internet Writers Union. She participated in many local, Arab and international
evenings, meetings and conferences. Many master's and doctoral studies have
dealt with her fictional works, and her stories are taught in a number of
universities, and some of her stories have been translated into English,
Italian and French.
its business
The following collections of
stories:
Sound Absorbing Walls (1986)
Female Ritual (1990)
Mozart's Fez (1998)
Discord Pants (2002)
Ringer (The Female Spider) (2008)
Picasso Café (2012)
graphic novel:
Two worlds are coming (2013).
Shared books
Story collections and shared books
Selections from the short story in
Jordan, Ministry of Culture, Amman, 1992
The Other Voice: Ugarit Center,
Ramallah 1999 (Selections of stories by female writers: JORDANIAN FICTION -
1993 Ministry of Culture, Amman
Poetic spaces: Syria / Aleppo 1999
Place listing: Ministry of Culture,
Amman
Naji Al-Ali: A Pulse Still Within
Us, 2012 (subscriber)
The anecdotal landscape in Jordan.
(Anthology) Book: JORDANIAN FICTION
- 1993 - Fahd Salameh - Jordanian Ministry of Culture Book: Anthology of the
Short Story in Jordan: by Dr. Amina Amin for the American Publishing House (O
Books), entitled Under A Starlit Sky - Jordanian Voices 2010
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Achievements and Awards
- Years in active
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