Ali Al-Muqri
Författare till Hurma
Verk av Ali Al-Muqri
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1966
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Yemen
- Födelseort
- Ta'izz, Yemen
- Yrken
- Journalist
Novelist
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Priser
Statistik
- Verk
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 22
- Popularitet
- #553,378
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
- Språk
- 2
Now, courtesy of the Brisbane Writers Festival Opening Address, there’s a been a brouhaha about writers appropriating the culture and experiences of others, and I do not want to get into that*. But this book (like The Patience Stone) is written by a male author purporting to be a woman under the veil. Written in a culture that oppresses women, this novella gives a voice to the silent and the invisible. Yes, it would be better if there were a flourishing Yemeni publishing industry that brought us both male and female authors who could write freely about taboo subjects, but from what I’ve been able to glean from Wikipedia, Ali Al-Muqri is lionised in the west because he has the courage to tackle taboos like sex, religion and war. So… while I wait for translations from the emerging women’s writing industry in Yemen, I’m reading Hurma…
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/09/11/hurma-by-ali-al-muqri-translated-by-t-m-apli...… (mer)