Houda Darwish
Houda Darwish (Arabic: هدى درويش) is an Algerian novelist, poet, writer, and women's rights activist.[2] According to Abdel Madjid Djaber, a Palestinian critic and academician, she is a "charming lady of Algerian literature.".[3][4]
Houda Darwish هدى درويش | |
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Houda Darwish (2018) | |
Born | November 26, 1991 Algiers, Algeria |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Arabic |
Nationality | Algerian |
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Personal life
Born in West Algeria on November 26, 1991, Houda Darwish lived with two parents working as teachers, the father an Arabic teacher, the mother a French teacher. Because of her family situation, she was opened up to a wide variety of cultures and a mix between the Arabic and French literature.[5] She pursued her medicinal studies between French and Algerian university, currently as a pediatrician and neonatalogist.
Career
At the age of sixteen, once she settled down in Cairo, Darwish presented her first novel titled "Amal...A Love Looking for a Homeland" (In Arabic: آمال... حب يبحث عن وطن[6]). It was written in a poetic style with political bravado. It talked about a journey of a Palestinian musician between the roads of politics, espionage, and exile.[7]
Publishing works on a range of controversial issues, Darwish is well known by being literary affected by Jubran Khalil Jubran, Nizar Qabbani, and Mahmoud Darwish (supposedly, the latter man is the reason she chose Darwish as a last name for herself).[8]
Huda Darwish continues her success by publishing sequels. Justifying her transition between poetry and prose, the ex editor-in-chief of Rose al-Yūsuf, Essam Abdel-Aziz, said "Houda Darwish is a creative woman whose writing made us come back to the belle epoque."[9][10]
References
- "فضيلة الفاروق...طفلة تكتب بمزاج امرأة و امرأة تكتب بمزاج أمة !". eldjoumhouria.dz. Archived from the original on July 1, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "Nwf.com: حسناء الأدب الجزائري "دراسة نقدية": عبد المجيد جابر: كتب". Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "هدى درويش | جائزة كتارا للرواية العربية". جائزة كتارا للرواية العربية (in Arabic). Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "هدى درويش: تربطني بمكتبتي علاقة كيمياء – Laha Magazine". Laha Magazine. February 15, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "Houda Darwish". goodreads.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "اصدارات مؤلف – اتحاد الناشرين بجمهوريه مصر العربيه". Egyptianpublishers.org. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- "تعريف – هدى درويش". الأنطولوجيا (in Arabic). Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "وداعًا عصام عبد العزيز". rosaeveryday.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "أيها المصرى". rosa-magazine.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Amour en quête sa nation (in French).
- درويش, هدى (January 1, 2017). نساء بلا ذاكرة: رواية (in Arabic). Sama For Publishing & Distributiom. ISBN 9789777810517.
- "HOUDA DARWISH WRITER WEBSITE \ موقع الكاتبة هدى درويش". Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- Inc., Google. أعماق القول: إضاءات نقدية في أدب هدى درويش (in Arabic). ektab.com.