Hiba Abu Nada

Hiba Kamal Abu Nada (Arabic: هبة كمال أبو ندى) (24 June 1991 – 20 October 2023) was a Palestinian poet, novelist, nutritionist and Wikimedian.

In October 2017, She won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity (Second Place) at its 20th session for her novel titled al-Uksujīn laysa lil-mawtā (‘Oxygen is not for the dead,’ Arabic: الأكسجين ليس للموتى). The same month she was honoured by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture for winning the Sharjah Award.

Death
She posted for the last time on 8 October 2023, when she wroteGaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.
On 20 October 2023, at the age of 32, she was killed during an airstrike attack fired by Israeli Air Force (IAF) on her home during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.

 Legacy 
The Italian singer-songwriter Nicola Gelo dedicated his song È passata Maria "to the poet Hiba Abu Nada [...] so that the terrible delicacy of your verses continues to resonate among the people of the world enslaved by indifference and oblivion".

References

Other websites
 Hiba Abu Nada on Twitter

Category:1991 births
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Category:Deaths by Israeli airstrikes
Category:Palestinian writers
Category:Palestinian poets
Category:People from the Gaza Strip
Category:Civilians killed in the Israel–Hamas war