Najat Abdul Samad

Najat Abdel Samad (Arabic:نجاة عبد الصمد, born 1967) is a Syrian writer, translator, and obstetrician. She has published four novels including "No Water Takes It" which was awarded Katara Prize for Arabic Novel. She has translated two Russian books into Arabic including the story "Memoirs of a Young Doctor" by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Najat Abdul Samad
Born1967
Sweida, Syria
NationalitySyrian
OccupationObstetrician, writer, translator
Awardsher novel "La Maa Yarweena" won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel in the category of published Arab novels, 2018

Education and career

Samad was born in As-Suwayda, Syria in 1967. She currently lives in Germany. She graduated from Damascus University with a degree in Arabic Language and Literature. She has four published novels. Her first novel "Bilad al-Manafi" was published by Dar al-Rayyis in 2010. Abdel Samad has also translations from the Russian language such as "The Memoirs of a Young Doctor" by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, which was a joint work with other translators; Osama Abu Al-Hassan and Thaer Zain Al-Din. In 2018, Abdel Samad's novel "La Maa Yarweeha" won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels in the category of published Arab novels.[1][2][3]

Selected works
  • "Muthakarat Tabib Shab", 2005
  • "Belad Al Manafi",2010
  • "Ghornikat Suria", 2013
  • "Fi Hananya Al Harb", 2015
  • "La Ma Yarweeha", 2016

Awards

References
  1. سلام, أميرة (28 August 2017). "مجلّة صُوَر تحاور الطبيبة والروائيّة نجاة عبدالصمد". Suwar Magazine. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. Baladi, Enab (17 October 2018). "Three Syrian novels win the "Katara" award for the Arabic novel". Enjazaat. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  3. "نجاة عبدالصمد: المبدعة المغبونة". Syria tv. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
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