Hanan Al Sheikh

GPTKB entity

Statements (43)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Author
gptkbp:activeYears 1970-present
gptkbp:associatedWith Feminist Literature
Arab_Women_Writers
Lebanese_Literature
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Al_Owais_Award
gptkbp:birthPlace Beirut
gptkbp:child Jad_Al_Sheikh
Maya_Al_Sheikh
Rami_Al_Sheikh
gptkbp:contribution Cultural exchange
Literary_activism
Promoting_Arab_women's_voices
gptkbp:education gptkb:American_University_of_Beirut
gptkbp:gender Female
gptkbp:genre Fiction
Literary Fiction
gptkbp:hasBirthDate 1945
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Hanan Al Sheikh
gptkbp:influenced Feminism
Postcolonial Literature
Contemporary Arab Literature
Arab_Feminism
Maghreb_Literature
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez
gptkbp:knownFor Cultural commentary
Social critique
Exploring_women's_issues_in_Arab_society
gptkbp:language gptkb:Arabic
gptkbp:nationality Lebanese
gptkbp:notableWork Women of Sand and Myrrh
The_Locust_and_the_Bird
The_Story_of_Zahra
gptkbp:occupation Novelist
gptkbp:residence gptkb:London
gptkbp:spouse Amin Maalouf
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Spanish
English
French
German
Italian
gptkbp:website http://www.hananalsheikh.com