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| Born | Badriah Abdullah Al-Bishr بدرية عبدالله البشر 1967 |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, novelist |
| Spouse | Nasser Al Qasabi[1] |
| Children | 3 |
Badriah Al-Beshr (Arabic: بدرية البشر, born 1967 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) is a Saudi Arabian writer and novelist.[2] She was born in Riyadh and obtained a bachelor's degree and master's degree from King Saud University and a PhD from the Lebanese University in 2005. She has taught at Al Jazeera University in Dubai. A weekly columnist at Al Yamama magazine since 1997, she won the prize for "best newspaper column" at the Arabic Press Awards in 2011, becoming the first woman to do so. She also writes regularly for Al Hayat newspaper.
El-Bishr has published three collections of short stories and three novels to date. The novels are
- Hind and the Soldiers (2005)
- The Seesaw (2010)
- Love Stories on al-Asha Street (2013)
Her latest novel Love Stories on al-Asha Street was longlisted for the 2014 Arabic Booker Prize.[3]
References
- ^ Al-Muharib, Saas (10 September 2007). "بدرية البشر للعربية.نت: الفتوى ضد "طاش ما طاش" لم تجد صدى بالسعودية". Alarabiya.net (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 4 July 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ "Badryah El-Bishr | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ^ "Profile". Archived from the original on 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
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