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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
10 Jan 2005 10:06:40 AM |
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OT: Turki al-Hamad |
Triumphant Trilogy
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901050117-1015836,00.html
Fatwas and death threats won't stop Saudi novelist Turki al-Hamad from
writing - or his fans from buying
By MALU HALASA
Sunday, Jan. 09, 2005
Authors get used to criticism, but for Saudi Arabian novelist Turki
al-Hamad, the critics could be deadly. Since the 1998 publication of
Adama, the first installment of his sweeping coming-of-age trilogy,
al-Hamad's work has been condemned as heretical and banned in Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. He has earned four fatwas and numerous
death threats. Yet he continues to write, and find readers; he has sold
some 20,000 copies of the Arabic edition of his trilogy. Last November,
Shumaisi, the second novel in the trilogy, was published in English by
Saqi Books to impressive reviews. His goal, he said in a phone
interview from his Riyadh home, is simple, if ambitious: he seeks to
reveal "the real picture of Saudi society - what's going on
underneath."
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