Sania Saleh


Sania Saleh was a Syrian writer and poet, who wrote and published several poetry collections. Some of her poetry has been translated into English by Marilyn Hacker.

Biography

Sania Saleh was born in the city of Masyaf, in the Hama Governorate, Syria to Ismaili parents. She met the Syrian writer Mohammad al-Maghut in the 1950s at the house of the Syrian poet Adunis in Beirut. In the late 1960s she married Mohammad al-Maghut while she was still a student in the college of literature at the University of Damascus, Syria. They had two daughters together and named them Sham and Salafa.
In 1985, Sania Saleh died at a hospital in Paris after having battled an illness for 10 months.
The Egyptian poet Iman Mersal has lamented that fact Saleh's poetry was not more widely known when Mersal was young:

Works

  • Tight Time
  • Execution Ink
  • Zikr al-Ward
  • ''Dust''

    Poetry translated into English

  • Republished in

  • Awards

  • An-Nahar newspaper award for best modern poem
  • Hawaa magazine award for short stories
  • Al Hasnaa magazine award for poetry