{{Short description|Syrian journalist and novelist (born 1959)}} '''Khalil Sweileh''' ({{langx|ar|خليل صويلح}}; born 1959) is a Syrian journalist and novelist. He was born Al-Hasakah city in northern Syria and studied literature at Damascus University. He has since worked for a number of cultural publications in various capacities.<ref name="zayedaward"/>
Sweileh received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2009 for his novel ''Writing Love'', translated by Alexa Firat and published in English in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-10-22 |title=Khalil Sweileh's 'Writing Love' |url=https://arablit.org/2012/10/22/khalil-sweilehs-writing-love/ |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY |language=en-US}}</ref> In his acceptance speech, Sweileh mentioned that as a village boy, his chance discovery of a tattered copy of Mahfouz's novel ''Khufu's Wisdom'' was partly responsible for inspiring his love of literature.<ref>[http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/5636 "Khalil Sweileh receives Naguib Mahfouz prize", ''Al Masry Al Youm'', 12th Dec 2009]</ref>
His previous novels include ''Express Mail'' (2004), ''Do Not Blame Me (2006)'', and ''Zuhur, Sara, and Nariman'' (2008). In 2010, he won the Arab Journalism Award and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for literature in 2018 for his novel ''Ikhtibar al-Nadam'' (Remorse Test).<ref name="zayedaward">{{cite web |url=https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/previous.editions/winners/sample.user.4.aspx?year=2018 |title=Khalil Sweileh |website=Sheikh Zayed Book Award |date=2018 }}</ref> He published ''The Bride's Water'' in 2025.
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