Jamal Bannoura

Jamal Bannoura
Born	1938 Beit Sahour, Palestine
💀Died	16 December 2020 Beit Sahour, Palestine16 December 2020
🏳️ Nationality	Palestinian
💼 Occupation	story teller, novelist

Jamal Bannoura (Arabic: جمال بنورة) was a Palestinian short story writer and novelist. His writings varied between story, play and novel, whom in which he expressed a rejection and resistance to the Israeli occupation, which exposed him to chase and arrest.

Career

Bannoura was born in the city of Beit Sahour in 1938 and worked in the education sector.

He began writing in the early 1960s, where he used to write stories, plays and novels. Together with several intellectuals and colleagues, he founded the first syndicate of Palestinian writers in 1977 as a group called “Kitab al-Baydar”. His stories were published in Palestinian magazines and newspapers such as Al-Jihad, Al-Fajr, Al-Shaab, Al-Ittihad, Al-Jadeed and Al-Fajr Literary.

Bannoura is considered one of the most interested in collecting and studying Palestinian folklore, and in that he once said:

"While searching for heritage - to record and preserve it from loss - feels as if I am searching for myself"

His stories have been translated into several languages: English, German, Bulgarian and Spanish. Two of his collections of short stories have been translated into Russian and Italian.

in the beginnings of the sixties, Bannoura set a literary dream, which was to write a long novel about the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, but right after finishing it, he wasn't convinced and that's when he switched to writing about a personal experience, but he also didn't finish it because he felt that his skills were not enough.

The setback of 1967 came to rise with a literary enlightenment, and from the first day another dream begins, as he stated in an interview with the Palestine Foundation for Culture in 2012, saying:

I began to record my notes, my impressions about the war, people's attitudes, conversations and comments, and a summary of the events we lived through... I may one day employ them in the novel work that I dream of writing. I did not have enough time to write the novel due to my involvement in the national work.I was busy writing short stories to express the reality of daily life under the occupation, and I continued to write and publish story collections until my forced retirement by the Israeli occupation authorities in 1983. When I finally had the time to write the novel whose events still live in my head, I finished it, and published it and then started preparing to write "Al Intifada" novel, and this way, my writings were divided between short stories and novels, and later the play.

Bannoura passed away on December 16, 2020 in Beit Sahour.

Works

Novels

·      1982: Unforgettable Days (Original title: ayaam la tansaa )

·      1998: Uprising (Original title: aintifada)

·      2010: And still the dream..! (Original title: wama zal alhulm ..!)

Stories

·      1970: Back (Original title: aleawda)

·      1981: A Grandfather's Tale (Original title: hikayat jddy)

·      1982: The Missing Thing (Original title: alshay' almafqud)

·      1986: The Palestinian Death (Original title: almawt alfilastiniu)

·      1990: A bathroom in the yard of the house (Original title: )hmmam fi sahat aldaar

·      1993: A lamp has not been extinguished (Original title: siraj lam yantafi)

·      1999: Facing Death (Original title: i muajahat almawt)

Plays

·      1980: Death was upon us (Original title:  kan almawt wanahn ealaa miead)

·      Prisoner (Original title: alsajin)

Studies

·      1993: Palestinian Wedding Songs (Original title: aghani aleurs alfilastinii )

·      2016: The date of what history has not mentioned (Original title: tarikh ma lam yadhkurh altaarikh)

References

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