Lebanon mourns a huge loss with the death of renowned Lebanese novelist Emilie Nasrallah at the age of 87 on Wednesday. The funeral will be held tomorrow, Thursday, in Zahle.
Born in 1931 in the village of Kfeir in South Lebanon, the late novelist had published children's stories and received several awards.
She reaped the prizes of "Feyrouz" and "Gebran Khalil Gebran" magazines that had been awarded to her by the Arab Heritage Union, Australia.
The Lebanese writer had also won the International Board of Books for Young People "IBBY" Award for her tale "Diary of a Cat".
She got her education at the American University of Beirut and received her master's degree in 1958. She gave birth, with her husband Philippe Nasrallah, to four children: Ramzi, Maha, Khalil and Mona.
Not only a novelist, journalist, writer, teacher and lecturer, Emilie Nasrallah was also a women's rights activist.
Her first novel "The Birds of September", published in 1962, won three literary awards. Her books have been translated from Arabic into English and French.
Among her novels are "The hostage", "Winds of the South", "Starting stages", "The lost wind", "Fire under the ash", and many other books.
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