Badriyya al-Shihhi

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Badriyya al-Shihhi (born 1971) is an Omani novelist, the first Omani woman writer to publish a novel. In the judgment of the Egyptian poet and journalist Ashraf Dali, al-Shihhi's 1999 novel "realized the birth of the real Omani novel".[1]

Works[edit]

  • Al-Tawaf haythu al-jamr [Treading Around the Embers]. Beirut: Al-Mu'assasa al-'Arabiyya lil-Dira wa-l-Nashr, 1999.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gail Ramsay (2011). "Globalisation and Cross-Cultural Writing in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman". In Anders Pettersson; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Margareta Petersson; Stefan Helgesson (eds.). Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Volume 4: Literary Interactions in the Modern World 2. Walter de Gruyter. p. 251. ISBN 978-3-11-089411-0.

Sources[edit]

  • Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, "Modern Poetry and Prose of Oman 1970-2000", Krakow: The Enigma Press 2002