Hasan Nasr

Hasan Nasr
Born	Hasan Nasr February 4, 1937 (age 85) Tunisia
🏳️ Nationality	Tunisian
💼 Occupation	storyteller

A Tunisian writer, born in Halfaouine, one of popular neighborhood in Tunis, on February 4, 1937, he studied at the Quranic school and then at the Zaytuna Mosque. He took some free professional crafts. Then he worked as a teacher for a short period, after that he joined the College of Arts in Baghdad, then stopped continuing his studies and returned to teaching again in secondary institutes. He spent more than three decades of life in this profession and then he retired.

Biography

With the beginning of work, he began writing a number of texts in the Tunisian newspaper “Al-Alam”. The first short story was in 1959 entitled: “dameatu kahl” (a tear of a middle-aged man), It appeared in Al-Fikr magazine, this story will print the theme and the style of a period known in the history of Tunisian literature as the literature of resistance against the French colonizer.” layali al matar” (The Nights of Rain collection) is the best evidence of this period. In this collection, he also touched on social issues, individual crises, intergenerational conflict and other worlds, without some of them devoid of existentialism. He also wrote a very short story, which he named “qisatun toqrae fi daqiqa” ( a story that you read in one minute), most of stories were published in the supplement of al amal al thaqafi newspaper” (the cultural work newspaper) on a weekly basis. These stories reflect the two cases of the setback left by the 1967 war on the one hand, and the disappointment left by the socialist experience in Tunisia on the other. Also, some of these stories expose in a surreal way how pressure devices work on human beings. During that period, he wrote the novel “dahaliz al layl” (lobbies of the Night) which takes place in Mahdia city, and which tells about the socialist experience in the marine fishing sector. After years of quitting writing, Hassan Nasr returned and published a novel, “khobz al ard” (The Bread of the Earth), in which he spoke about man's attachment to the land and peasants’ tragedy. He stopped writing again, and then returned and published his beautiful novel, “Dar Al-Basha” (the pasha's house)

His books

• · ” khobz al ard” (Bread of the Earth), Tunisian Publishing House, 1985
• · ”al sahar wa aljorh” (staying up and wound), Dar Al-Tunisia Publishing, 1989
• · ”52 layla” (52 Nights), Rehab Al Maerefa publishing, 1996
• · ”khoyol al fajer” (Dawn Horses), Dar Al Yamama publishing, 1997
• · ”sijillat rass al dik” (of Ras Al-Deek archives), Seras Publishing, 2001
• · “dahaliz al layl” (lobbies of the Night), Dar Siras Publishing, 2004
• · ” layali al matar” (Nights of Rain collection), Dar Al Yamama publishing, 2007
• · “Dar Al-Basha” (the pasha's house), Dar Al-Janoub for Publishing, 2010
• · “kaenat mujanahha” (A Winged Beings), Waraqa publishing, 2010
• · “ma ajmala al bahr” (What a beautiful sea), Zukhoura Publications, 2015
• · “al malak fi al manfa“ (Angel in Exile), Menliziz Tunis, 2017Awards
• Some of his books have gained awards from the Ministry of Culture
• · ” layali al matar” (Nights of Rain): The Encouragement Award 1968
• · “dahaliz al layl” (lobbies of the Night): the encouragement Award 1978
• · ”al sahar wa aljorh” (staying up and wound): Creativity Award in 1989

Awards

Some of his books have received awards from the Ministry of Culture

• Nights of the Rain: The 1968 Encouragement Award
• Corridors of the Night: Incentive Award 1978
• Staying awake and wounding: Creativity Award 1989

References

This article "Hasan Nasr" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Hasan Nasr. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

📰 Article(s) of the same category(ies)

• Khalid Abu Ali
• Abdelmonem Alhefnee
• Chaker Khazal
• Salwa Mahmasani
• Ahmed Al-Hokail
• Mohamed Lakhdar Essaihi
• Maratij (Locks)

---