The Dukduk's Whimper
by Jalal Barjas
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An IPAF winner’s memoir on his formation as a writer and reader
Our lives are essentially a story and we are the characters. “The Duduk’s Whimper” is story of Jalal Barjas, beginning with his birth in 1970 and ending in 2021. His story is inspired by his life as a human being and a writer with little time at his disposal. It is a life that intersects with many others in our Arab world. The idea for this biography/novel was born out of a question the author asked about his motivations for reading, writing, and traveling.
The result is a candid, bold narrative that presents his image to the reader without idealism or heroism. This memoir unfolds along three lines: the biography of the writer, the stories of three places, and the tale of three books he read. Through these narratives, Barjas reveals unknown aspects of his life and the difficult path he had to take to reach his esteemed position in the literary world. He takes us on an entertaining and profound journey with a high level of language that reveals many aspects that are not only relevant to him, but also to everyone who reads this book. It delves deeply into reading, writing, travel, love, failure, success, and the formation of human joys and sorrows starting from childhood. “The Duduk’s Whimper” is the story of a writer who only has three hours a day to write, yet he managed to establish himself as one of the great writers.
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the literature category.
Author Jalal Barjas won the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel, “Notebooks of the Bookseller”.
Funding is available for translation of all literary and children’s titles that have won or have been shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Author Biography
Jalal Barjas is a Jordanian poet and novelist who has won several Arab and international awards, notably the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2021 for his novel “Notebooks of the Bookseller”. He also received the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel in 2014 for his novel “Snakes of Fire”; the Rukus Bin Zayd Al-Uzaizi Creativity Award in 2012 for his short story collection “The Earthquake”; and the Rifka Dudin Prize for Creativity in 2013 for his novel “The Dreamer’s Guillotine”. His novel “Women of the Five Senses” was longlisted for the IPAF in 2019, and the English translation of “Notebooks of the Bookseller” was longlisted for the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Barjas’ works have been translated into English, French, Persian, and Hindi. His book “Madaba Windows Guard Jerusalem” has been translated into seven languages.
He currently heads the editorial board of “Voice of the Generation” magazine and produces and hosts a cultural radio program titled “House of the Novel”.
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- Publisher Arab Institute for Research and Publishing
- Orginal LanguageArabic
- ISBN/Identifier 9786144863985
- Pages223
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleNasheej al-Duduk
- Copyright Year2022
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