Hilal Chouman

{{short description|Lebanese novelist and writer|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Hilal Chouman''' (Arabic: هلال شومان; born 1982) is a Lebanese novelist and writer. He was born in Beirut and studied communications and electronics engineering at Jâmi'at Bâyrut Al-Arabiya. He then obtained an MSc in aerospace communication systems and satellite communications. He now lives and works in Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rayaagency.org/clients/chouman-hilal/ |title=Bio |access-date=2019-11-25 |archive-date=2022-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818080923/http://www.rayaagency.org/clients/chouman-hilal/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Writing == Literary scholars have described Chouman's writing as Post–Cold War era or post-Lebanese Civil War, with emphasis on the ordinary or mundane.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dallal |first=Ziad |last2=الدلّال |first2=زياد |date=2021 |title=Chronicles of the Eternal Present - تدوين الحاضر الأبدي: Literary Montage in Dhāt and Kāna ghadan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27002737 |journal=Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics |issue=41 |pages=140–158 |issn=1110-8673}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hayek |first=Ghenwa |date=2017 |title=Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26528951 |journal=The Arab Studies Journal |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=8–29 |doi=10.2307/26528951 |issn=1083-4753}}</ref> Chouman himself disagrees with the designations of war or post-war based on time of publication.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 22, 2019 |title=CHIT-CHAT |url=https://www.madamasr.com/en/2019/11/22/feature/culture/detox-issue-08-on-birds-language-and-revolution/ |work=Mada Masr}}</ref> His writing also features more contemporary life in Beirut.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hayek |first=Ghenwa |title=The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City |year=2017 |editor-last=Tambling |editor-first=J. |pages=587-597 |chapter=Beirut}}</ref>

=== Novels === * ''Stories of Sleep'' (2008) * ''Napolitana'' (2010) * ''Limbo Beirut'' (2012) - translated by Anna Ziajka Stanton and nominated for the PEN Translation Prize (2017) and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize (2017) * ''Once Upon a Time, Tomorrow'' (2016) * ''Sorrow in My Heart'' (2022)

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