Saad Mohammed Raheem
Saad Mohammed Raheem | |
|---|---|
| Saad Mohammed Raheem | |
| Born | 1957 Diyala |
| Died | April 9, 2018 Sulaymaniyah |
| Known for | Award-winning writer |
Saad Mohammed Raheem (1957–2018) was an Iraqi writer. He was born in Diyala Governorate in eastern Iraq in 1957.[1][2] He studied economics at Mustansiriya University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1980.
Saad wrote several collections of short stories during his career, among them Almond Blossom (2009) which won the 2010 Creativity Prize for the Short Story. He also published three novels: Twilight of the Wader (2000), which won the 2000 Creativity Award for Fiction, The Song of a Woman, Twilight of the Sea (2012), and The Bookseller's Murder (2016), which was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize. A well-known journalist in his native Iraq, he won the 2005 Iraqi Award for Best Investigative Journalism.[3]
He died of a stroke in Sulaymaniyah on April 9, 2018.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b "وفاة الكاتب العراقى سعد محمد رحيم عن 61 عامًا". اليوم السابع (in Arabic). 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ^ a b الجنابي, يسرى (10 April 2018). "رحيل الكاتب العراقي سعد محمد رحيم في ذروة عطائه الأدبي".
- ^ "Saad Mohammed Raheem | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.