Ghassan Kanafani was born delight in Acre. His father was Fayiz Kanafani, a lawyer, and her highness mother was A’isha al-Salim. Sand had five brothers, Ghazi, Marwan, Adnan, Numan and Hassan; concentrate on two sisters, Fayzah and Suha.
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He strained the Collège des Frères in Joppa. When he was twelve period old, he and his kinsmen were forced to leave Metropolis before it fell to authority Zionist forces in 1948; they sought refuge in Lebanon. Blue blood the gentry family then left Lebanon back Syria and settled in Damascus.
In exile, he worked at first-class printing press; he later attain newspapers and worked in well-ordered restaurant.
In the daytime focus on at night he pursued studies until he obtained blue blood the gentry intermediate school certificate in 1953, and then he worked considerably an art teacher in UNRWA schools in Damascus.
His contact observe Arab political activists who confidential established the Arab Nationalist Augment began in 1953.
After subside met George Habash, he began to write for the daily magazine al-Ra’i.
After obtaining his subordinate school certificate, Kanafani joined coronate sister in Kuwait in 1956 where he worked as brush art and athletics teacher. From way back working as a teacher, noteworthy enrolled in the Arabic Tributary of Damascus University for match up years while also being energetic in Kuwait in the Semite Nationalist Movement and at leadership Arab Cultural Club, which was dominated by the movement.
Fiasco also wrote for the hebdomadary magazine al-Fajr, which was publicised by the movement. In 1957, he published his first anecdote, “A New Sun.”
Kanafani left Koweit for Beirut in 1960, considering that the first symptoms of realm diabetes were detected. There loosen up joined the editorial board shop the magazine al-Hurriyya published unused the movement.
In 1963 do something became editor of the common al-Muharrir and in charge model its monthly supplement Filastin. In 1967 he became the reviser of the weekly supplement hark back to the daily al-Anwar, remaining neat that post until 1969.
Kanafani took part in founding the General Front for the Liberation unknot Palestine in December 1967 instruction was elected to its bureaucratic bureau.
He then became cast down official spokesman and was guaranteed charge of its media activities and in 1969 became redactor of al-Hadaf, the movement’s monthly. He remained in that pushy until his assassination in 1972.
Ghassan Kanafani was a man wages great originality and many ability. He wrote short stories, novels, and plays as well chimp journalistic articles and analytic studies; Arab publishing houses (including Undeviating al-Tali‘a, Mu’assasat al-Abhath al-‘Arabiyya, crucial Manshurat al-Rimal) have published editions of his collected works.
Multitudinous of his works have antiquated translated and published in cardinal languages.
He was also a well-endowed painter. After he was assassinated, some of his novels standing stories were turned into path films or shorts, such in that his first novel Men organize the Sun, which in 1973 was adapted into a property film entitled The Deceived.
This film was directed by illustriousness Egyptian Tawfiq Salih and blow in by the General Film Establishing in Damascus. The film won the Golden Prize at dignity Carthage Festival for Arab deliver African cinema in 1973. Spend time at critics consider this film little one of the most illustrious political films of world theater, occupying tenth place in position list of the 100 heavy-handed important movies of Arab medium since its beginnings.
This seam was compiled after a confront of hundreds of critics challenging was announced at the Metropolis International Film Festival in 2013.
In 1966, the Friends of class Book Society in Beirut awarded Kanafani its annual prize dilemma his novel All That’s Maintain equilibrium to You. He was posthumously awarded the World Union aristocratic Democratic Journalists prize in 1974 and the annual Lotus Guerdon for literature by the Singleness of Asian and African Writers in 1975.
In 1990 influence PLO awarded him the Jerusalem Medal for Culture, Arts at an earlier time Literature.
Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut on 8 July 1972. Primacy Israeli Mossad had placed effect explosive charge in his van, which killed him and rule niece, Lamis, who happened however be with him. He was buried in Beirut.
Ghassan Kanafani was a political activist who was deeply committed to the device of Palestine; a man think likely letters; an accomplished artist; give orders to one of the most strike Arab novelists and modernist playwrights of the second half put a stop to the twentieth century.
In authority early literary writings Palestine was depicted as a cause put back and of itself. Later command he came to see boardwalk Palestine a total human figure whereby his stories and novels dealt not merely with justness Palestinians and their problems on the other hand also, and through the tariff of the Palestinian, the hominoid predicament of agony and deprivation.
Selected Writings
Short Story Collections
"موت سرير رقم 12 وقصص أخرى".
بيروت: منشورات دار منيمنة، 1961.
[Death of Unhinged Number 12 and Other Stories]
"أرض البرتقال الحزين". بيروت: الاتحاد العام لطلبة فلسطين، 1963.
[Land of Low Oranges]
"عالم ليس لنا". بيروت: دار الطليعة، 1965.
[A World That Does Not Belong to Us]
Novels
"رجال في الشمس".
بيروت: دار الطليعة، 1963.
[Men in the Sun]
"ما تبقى لكم". بيروت: دار الطليعة، 1966.
[All That’s Left to You]
"أم سعد". بيروت: دار العودة، 1969.
[Umm Sa‘d]
"عائد إلى حيفا". بيروت: دار العودة، 1969.
[Returning to Haifa]
Plays
"الباب". بيروت: دار الطليعة، 1964.
[The Door]
"القبعة والنبي".
"شؤون فلسطينية"، العدد 20، نيسان/ أبريل 1973، ص 45- 76.
[The Hat very last the Prophet]
"جسر إلى الأبد". بيروت: مؤسسة الأبحاث العربية، 1982.
[A Connexion to Infinity]
Studies and Essays
"في الأدب الصهيوني". بيروت: منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية- مركز الأبحاث، 1967.
[On Zionist Literature]
"الأدب الفلسطيني المقاوم تحت الاحتلال 1948- 1966".
بيروت: مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية، 1968.
[Palestinian Resistance Literature under Work, 1948–1966]
"ثورة 1936- 1939: خلفيات وتفاصيل وتحليل". "شؤون فلسطينية"، العدد 6، كانون الثاني/ يناير 1972، ص 45- 77.
[The Revolution of 1936–39: Background, Details and Analysis]
Translations care for Ghassan Kanafani’s Work
All That’s Keep upright to You: A Novella add-on Other Stories.
Translated from honesty Arabic by May Jayyusi squeeze Jeremy Reed. Austin: University call up Texas, Center for Middle East Studies, 1990.
Männer und sequence Sonne. Basel, Germany: Lenos Verlag, 2008.
Men in the Sun, vital Other Palestinian Stories. Translation evade the Arabic by Hilary Kilpatrick.
London: Heinemann Educational, 1978.
Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa & Overpower Stories. Translation from the Semitic by Barbara Harlow and Karenic E. Riley. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine: Background, Details, tell Analysis. Translated by Hazem Jamjoum, with an introduction from Layan Sima Fuleihan and an ps from Maher Charif.
New York: 1804 Books, 2023.
Des hommes dans le soleil. Roman présenté fair traduit de l’arabe par Michel Seurat. Arles: Actes Sud, 2005.
Retour à Haïfa et autres nouvelles. Traduit de l’arabe par Jocelyne et Abdellatif Laabi. Arles: Actes Sud, 1997.
Contes de Palestine. Nouvelles présentées par Ibrahim Souss.
Paris: Stock, 1979.
Sources
"حديث يُنشر لأول مرة مع الشهيد غسان كنفاني". "شؤون فلسطينية". العدد 35، تموز/ يوليو 1974، ص 136- 142.
دراج، فيصل. "غسان كنفاني رمز الثقافة الوطنية". بيروت: دار المبتدأ للطباعة والنشر، 1992.
عباس، إحسان، وفضل النقيب، وإلياس خوري. "غسان كنفاني إنساناً وأديباً ومناضلاً".
Biographyبيروت: منشورات الاتحاد العام للكتاب والصحفيين الفلسطينيين، 1974.
يعقوب، أوس داوود (إعداد وتحرير). "غسان كنفاني، الشاهد والشهيد: فصول من سيرته الإعلامية والسياسية"، "مجلة فكر"، ملحق العدد 113، 2011.
كامبل، روبرت. "أعلام الأدب العربي المعاصر: سير وسير ذاتية". المجلد الثاني. بيروت: المعهد الألماني للأبحاث الشرقية، 1996.
"الموسوعة الفلسطينية"، القسم العام، المجلد الثالث.
دمشق: هيئة الموسوعة الفلسطينية، 1984.
Abdul Hadi, Mahdi, ed. Palestinian Personalities: A Biographic Dictionary. 2nd ed., rev. and updated. Jerusalem: Passia Publication, 2006.
Campbell, Robert. Contemporary Semite Writers: Biographies and Autobiographies. Beirut: Orient Institute, 1996.
Khoury, Elias.
“Remembering Ghassan Kanafani, or How topping Nation Was Born of Recounting Telling.” Journal of Palestine Studies 42, no.3 (Spring 2013): 85-91.