Anwar Hamed (born 1957) () is a Palestinian novelist and poet. He was born in Anabta, Palestine, and went to Hungary for college. His first short stories were published in Arabic when he was still a teenager in the West Bank, but after his move to Hungary, he started writing in Hungarian. His first novels were written in this language. Since 2004, he has been living in London, where he works for BBC Arabic His short story entitled “The Key”, published in English, was longlisted to British Science Fiction Association Award 2019. His most recent novel is Shijan, which was published in Arabic in March 2019.
His novel Jaffa Prepares Morning Coffee was longlisted for the 2013 Arabic Booker Prize.
Selected works, in Arabic
The Bridge of Babylon جسور وشروخ وطيور لا تحلق
Stones of Pain حجارة الألم
Scheherazade Tells Tales No More
jenin 2002جنين 2002
Bewildered taste of passion والتيه والزيتون
Fragmentation شجن
Jaffa Prepares Morning Coffee يافا تعد قهوة الصباح
Jenin 2002
Outsider غريب () Chronicle of Fragmentation!أشباه وأشباح ''Literary theory: An attempt towards the definition of the function of “
References
1957 births
Living people
Palestinian expatriates in Hungary
Palestinian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Palestinian journalists
Palestinian novelists
People from Anabta
