Hassan Daoud

{{Short description|Lebanese writer and journalist}} thumb|300px|Daoud (centre), July 2011 London

'''Hassan Daoud''' ({{Langx|ar|حسن داوود|Ḥasan Dāwūd}}; born 1950) is a Lebanese writer and journalist.<ref>[http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/365/hassan-daoud/ Author profile on Banipal website]</ref> Originally from the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon, he moved to Beirut as a child with his family.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Daoud |first=Hassan |date=2006-08-27 |title=The Last Refuge |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/magazine/27lives.html |access-date=2026-03-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He studied Arabic literature at university. He has been a journalist since the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975. He served as a correspondent for ''al-Hayat'' for 11 years. As of 2012 he edited ''Nawafez'', the cultural supplement of the Beiruti newspaper ''al-Mustaqbal''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://penatlas.org/online/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=16 |title=Profile on the English PEN World Atlas website |access-date=2011-07-15 |archive-date=2012-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525222855/http://penatlas.org/online/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Daoud has published eight novels and two volumes of short stories. As of 2011, five of the novels have been translated into English. Daoud has also been translated into French and German (by Hartmut Faehndrich). His work has appeared in Banipal magazine.

==Awards and honors== *2015 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature winner for ''No Road to Paradise''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/18/173305/Books/Lebanese-writer-Hassan-Daoud-wins--Naguib-Mahfouz-.aspx |title=Lebanese writer Hassan Daoud wins 2015 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature |work=Al-Ahram |author=Mohammed Saad |date=December 12, 2015 |accessdate=December 13, 2015}}</ref>

==Works== * ''The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine'' (translated by Randa Jarrar) * ''Borrowed Time'' (translated by Michael K Scott) * ''The House of Mathilde'' (translated by Peter Theroux) * ''180 Sunsets'' (longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010) * ''The Penguin's Song'' (translated by Marilyn Booth) * ''No Road to Paradise'' (translated by Marilyn Booth)

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==External links== *[http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100915930&fa=author&person_id=9155#content ''The Penguin's Song'' by Hassan Daoud] at City Lights

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