Muneera Swar (Arabic: منيرة سوار; born 1975) is a Bahraini novelist and translator. Her book Jariya was a winner of the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel in 2015.

Biography

Muneera Swar was born in Bahrain in 1975.[1][2] Her father is the Bahraini writer Aqil Sawar.[2] She attended the University of Bahrain, where she studied English literature.[1]

In 2006, Swar published a popular translation into Arabic of Jo Frost's book Supernanny.[1] The following year she began writing fiction,[3] and she published her first novel, Nisa’a al Mutaa, in 2008.[1][2]

Her second novel, Hussein Al-Messenger, was released in 2012.[1] Then, in 2014 she published her third novel, Jariya, which deals with race and identity in the Arab world.[1][4] The following year, it was chosen as one of the winners of the inaugural Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, the only Bahraini work honored that year.[1][5][6] Jariya was published in French translation as Courtisane in 2016.[7]

In addition to her writing, Swar has worked as a graphic designer and in the Public Relations and Media Department of the Bahraini Ministry of Education.[1][2]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Muneera Swar". International Prize for Arabic Fiction. 2015. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "منيرة سوار". Katara Prize for Arabic Novel (in Arabic). 2015. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  3. ↑ "منيرة السوار: أردت أن أضغط قلمي على وجع الاختلاف عن الآخر". Akhbarak (in Arabic). 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  4. ↑ "رواية «جارية» لمنيرة سوار.. إبداعٌ لا يصدق". Al Ayam (in Arabic). 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  5. ↑ "Katara Prize for Arabic Novel winners to be named tomorrow". The Peninsula. 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  6. ↑ "Honoring Munera Swar". Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities. 2015-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  7. ↑ "Courtisane : roman / Muneera Swar ; traduit de l'arabe par Stéphanie el Badawi". Community College of Qatar (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-22.


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