Laila al-Atrash

Laila al-Atrash (Arabic: ليلى الأطرش; died 17 October 2021) was a Palestinian and Jordanian writer and journalist.

[1][2][3][4] She was the author of half a dozen novels, one of which (A Woman of Five Seasons) was translated into English by Nura Nuwayhid Halwani and Christopher Tingley.

[citation needed] She started her media career as a journalist and press reporter, then as producer and presenter of radio programs.

In the seventies she entered the broadcasting field as a TV news editor, anchor and program producer.

[citation needed] Her last novel Hymns of Temptation was nominated for the 2016 Arabic Booker Prize.