Samir El-Youssef
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Samir El-Youssef (Arabic: سمير اليوسف) (Samir El Youssef, Samir el youssef) is a Palestinian writer and critic, who was born in 1965 in Rashidia, a Palestinian refugee camp in south of Lebanon. Since 1990 he has been living in London where he studied philosophy and gained a Master of Arts degree from the University of London.
As a novelist El-youssef has published four works of fiction, of which Gaza Blues, Different Stories (co-authored with the Israeli Etgar Keret) is the most recent. He writes in both Arabic and English, and some of his work has been translated into German, Italian, Greek and Norwegian. In 2005, He published his first novel in English. He is also an essayist with a wide range of interests including literature, politics, philosophy and cultural studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in major Arabic periodicals and newspapers such as the London-based Al-Hayat.
In 2005, Swedish PEN granted the Tucholsky award of 2005 to Samir El-Youssef.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
Samir El-Youssef & Etgar Keret: Gaza Blues : Different Stories, London, 2004, ISBN 0-9540542-4-5
[edit] Further reading
- Travels: Paradise lost, by Samir El-Youssef, New Statesman September 11, 2006
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