2023-10-01 04:41:49
The passing of the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa
Death takes the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa away due to a heart attack. In addition to his novel work, he wrote in television dramas, some documentaries, and short and long films.
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At the age of 59, Syrian novelist and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa passed away due to a heart attack yesterday, Saturday, according to what Mamdouh Adwan Publishing and Distribution House announced.
Khalifa, born in Aleppo in 1964, wrote television dramas, some documentaries, and short and feature films.
Khalifa published six novels, most notably “Praise of Hatred,” which was shortlisted for the Arab Booker Prize in 2008, and “No Knives in the Kitchens of This City,” which won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize in Cairo in 2013.
Among the series for which he wrote the story, script, and dialogue are “Rainbow,” “Biography of the Al-Jalali Family,” “Relative Calm,” and “Shadow of a Woman.”
Egyptian director Khairy Bishara mourned the deceased, saying: “The news falls like a thunderbolt… Khaled Khalifa was one of the most beautiful friends… The concerns of life separated us, as did distance and war… A short time ago, I was very happy when we started exchanging our sweet memories, hoping to renew… The relationship and the revival of an old friendship… May you rest in peace, my most beautiful beings.”
Kuwaiti writer Talib Al-Rifai also mourned him, saying: “It is as if death selects its loved ones. Shocking news, my dear friend Khaled Khalifa. There is no consolation in the arena of the Arabic novel. May your pure soul have wide forgiveness and wide mercy.”
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