Samir Naqqash (Hebrew: סמיר נקאש, Arabic: سمير نقاش; 1938 in Baghdad – 6 July 2004, in Petah Tikva) was an Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright who immigrated from Iraq at the age of 13.
[1][2] When he was 13, he and his family moved to Israel, and had to live under comparatively harsh conditions in an absorption center.
[4][5] In the 1970s, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and received his degree in Arabic literature.
He was well known in the Arab world and among the Iraqi community in Israel, but only one of his works was translated into Hebrew.
Naqqash won the Israeli Prime Ministerial Award for Arabic literature.