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Jana Elhassan

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Jana Elhassan (born 1985) is a Lebanese award-winning novelist and short story writer from Lebanon. She has worked as a newspaper journalist and television writer since 2008.

Elhassan's first novel won the Simon Hayek Award,[1] and both her second novel, "Me, She and Other Women", and third novel, "Ninety Ninth Floor", were shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction. Her third novel was the first to be translated into English.

In 2015, Elhassan was listed among the BBC's 100women, a two-week season program featuring inspiring women around the world.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Jana Elhassan". Arabic Fiction. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  2. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2015: From all corners of the world". BBC News. Retrieved 13 June 2019.