Hilal Chouman Explained

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.^[1]

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.^{[2] [3]} Chouman himself disagrees with the designations of war or post-war based on time of publication.^[4] His writing also features more contemporary life in Beirut.^[5]

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)

Notes and References

1. http://www.rayaagency.org/clients/chouman-hilal/ Bio
2. Dallal . Ziad . الدلّال . زياد . 2021 . Chronicles of the Eternal Present - تدوين الحاضر الأبدي: Literary Montage in Dhāt and Kāna ghadan . Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics . 41 . 140–158 . 1110-8673.
3. Hayek . Ghenwa . 2017 . Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels . The Arab Studies Journal . 25 . 1 . 8–29 . 10.2307/26528951 . 1083-4753.
4. News: November 22, 2019 . CHIT-CHAT . Mada Masr.
5. Book: Hayek, Ghenwa . The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City . 2017 . Tambling . J. . 587-597 . Beirut.