Suhayl Idris

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Suhayl Idris (1923 - ) is a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, journalist and translator. He studied in Beirut before going on to study in Paris and gain a doctorate from the Sorbonne. He returned to Beirut in 1952, where he founded al-Adab, a monthly literary journal that became one of the leading periodicals of its kind, and translated many European works, including most of Sartre and Camus. His first collection, Ashwaq, was published in 1947.