Suhayl Idris

Template:Short description Suhayl Idris (1925 – February 19, 2008) was a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, journalist and translator.

Biography

Idris studied in Beirut before going on to study in Paris and receive a PhD from Sorbonne. His first collection, Ashwaq, was published in 1947.Template:Citation needed Idriss returned to Beirut in 1952 where he founded Al Adab, a monthly literary journal that became one of the leading periodicals of its kind.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Several of his novels have autobiographical themes, including al-Hayy al-Latini (1954) and al-Khandaq al-ghamiq (1958).<ref name="moreh" />

Idris also translated many European works, including most of Jean-Paul Sartre<ref name="moreh">Template:Cite book</ref> and Albert Camus. He had a pro-Nasserist and Arab nationalist political stance.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Idris died on February 19, 2008.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>