The Iraqi Novel Key Writers Key Texts
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780748641413
Description: This work looks in depth at four authors - Abd al-Malik Nuri, Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, Mahdi Isa al-Saqr and Fu'ad al-Takarli - who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a pivotal moment in Iraqi novel writing and a neglected area of postcolonial fiction.