Nouha Homad
Website :
http://www.nouhahomad.com/
Phone 1 :
514-342-1653
Phone 2 :
438-929-4212
Address :
5032, av. Victoria
City :
Montréal
Province :
Quebec
Zip Code :
H3W2N3
Membership category :
Full member
About / Bio
Born in Damascus, Syria, Nouha Homad was brought up and lived in Europe, the Middle East and South America. She studied eighteenth-century and Medieval English and French literature at American University, Beirut, Lebanon; Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France; and University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. She also studied art history and painting at the Art Academy, London, England. She has taught literature and language at a number of universities and is a freelance translator, editor and writer. She has translated with Kama Abu-Deeb Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (published 1986), co-authored and edited a three-volume interpretation of the Koran from Arabic into English (published in 1997), and translated Jorge Paolantonio’s novel from Argentine Spanish into English under the English title Ashes of Orchids (Jorge Pinto Publishing, New York, 2008). She came to Montreal in 1999.
Languages
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Arabic -> English
Spanish -> English
English -> French
French -> English
Literary Types
- Non fiction
- Children's / YA Literature
- Poetry
- Fiction
Selected Bibliography
- SALAH, Salah, "Under a Sky of Dogs" (Translation in progress)
- PAOLANTONIO, Jorge, "Ashes of Orchids" (Ceniza de orquideas), New York: Jorge Pinto Books, 2009
- JABRA, Jabra Ibrahim, "The Diary of Sarab Affan", London, England: Hesperus Press, 2001
- HOMAD, Ass'ad, "An Interpretation of the Koran" (translated a number of surat; revision and editing of the whole work) Damascus: 1998
- NERUDA, Pablo, "Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada" (with the collaboration of Prof Kamal Abu Deeb, SOAS) London, England: AL-Mahd, 8, 1996