Sahar Khalifeh has written eleven novels, which have been translated into English, French, Hebrew, German, Spanish, and many other languages.
11 Facts About Sahar Khalifeh
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Sahar Khalifeh has won international prizes, including the 2006 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, for The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant.
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Sahar Khalifeh was born in Nablus, British Mandate Palestine, the fifth of eight daughters.
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In childhood, Sahar Khalifeh found creative outlets like reading, writing, and painting.
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Sahar Khalifeh was married off against her will shortly after finishing high school in Amman, Jordan.
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Sahar Khalifeh continued writing and We Are Not Your Slaves Any Longer, was published in 1974, followed by her best-known novel, Wild Thorns, in 1976.
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Sahar Khalifeh published The Sunflower in 1980 as a sequel to Wild Thorns to focus on female narratives that were largely absent from the original story.
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Sahar Khalifeh continued her education in the US, receiving a Fulbright scholarship to complete her MA in English from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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Sahar Khalifeh returned to Nablus in 1988 after the start of the first intifada and began writing Bab al-Saha, a novel depicting women's lives against the background of the Intifada.
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In 1988, Sahar Khalifeh founded the Women's Affairs Center in Nablus.
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Sahar Khalifeh has published eleven novels, all of which deal with the situation of the Palestinians under occupation.