WRITER

Sahar Khalifeh

1941 - Today

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Sahar Khalifeh (Arabic: سحر خليفة; born 1941) is a Palestinian writer. She has written eleven novels, which have been translated into English, French, Hebrew, German, Spanish, and many other languages. One of her best-known works is the novel Wild Thorns (1976). She has won international prizes, including the 2006 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, for The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sahar Khalifeh is the 4,646th most popular writer (down from 4,178th in 2019). (down from 3,464th in 2019)

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Among writers, Sahar Khalifeh ranks 4,646 out of 7,302. Before her are Christian Matras, Isaac Watts, Urs Widmer, Levon Shant, Pierre Mac Orlan, and A. Merritt. After her are Nathanael West, Géza Csáth, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Joanna Russ, and Larysa Hienijuš.

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Among people born in 1941, Sahar Khalifeh ranks 392. Before her are Joan Wallach Scott, James Hansen, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Erkin Koray, Vittorio Messori, and Epeli Nailatikau. After her are Zlatko Škorić, Gérard Corbiau, Wilfrid Napier, Markus Lüpertz, Christoph Höhne, and Alf Clausen.

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