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An acclaimed Syrian novelist, cultural journalist and essayist. Sweileh is recognized as one of the most innovative and fearless stylists in contemporary Arabic literature. He is the recipient of prestigious literary honors, including the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature (2018) for Remorse Test (Ikhtibar Al-Nadam), the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature from the American University in Cairo (2009) for Writing Love (Warraq Al-Hubb), and the Dubai Journalism Award. He achieved further international acclaim when his novel Water of the Bride was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2026. Author of celebrated works including The Barbarians’ Paradise, The Snail’s Solitude, and Dying of the Mare, Sweileh is renowned for his meta-fictional brilliance, razor-sharp irony, and psychological dissection of fear, systemic humiliation, and war trauma in modern Syrian society.
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