Jamal Naji Explained

Jamal Naji
Birth Name:Jamal Naji Mohammad Esmail
Birth Date:1 November 1954
Birth Place:Aqbat Jaber, West Bank, annexed by Jordan
Death Place:Amman, Jordan
Nationality:Jordanian
Genre:Novels, short stories
Notableworks:'The Road to Balharith', 'Time', 'When Wolves Get Old', 'The Aftermath of the Recents whirlwinds', 'The Feathers Night'

Jamal Naji (Arabic: جمال ناجي), (1 November 1954 – 6 May 2018) was a Jordanian author of Palestinian origins.[1] He was born in 1954 in the refugee camp of Aqbat Jaber in the West Bank, annexed by Jordan. He moved to Jordan in 1967, when he was in his early teens.[2]

Naji began writing in his early twenties, and published his first novel The Road to Balharith in 1981–82. Since then he had written more novels as well as short story collections and television scripts. His novel When the Wolves Grow Old was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010.

He was the president of the Jordanian Writers Association from 2001 to 2003. He lived and worked in Amman, Jordan.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Author profile on IPAF website . 2011-08-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002205433/http://www.arabicfiction.org/author/16.html . 2011-10-02 . dead .
  2. Web site: Prominent Jordanian novelist Jamal Naji dies aged 64.