Yumna Al-Eid (Arabic: يُمنى العيد) (born 1935) is a Lebanese writer and literary critic.
She then dedicated herself to higher education in the college of Arts and Humanities Sciences in Lebanese University until her resignation in 1999.
[2] The committee announced the decision of her winning as follows:The oeuvre of Dr. Yumna Al-Eid in its entirety reveals an excellent consciousness over the novel methods of criticism and a clear scrupulous care that the theory and the Arabic text are in accordance and the term used for that is adhered to economically.
These characteristics, therefore, allow her criticism to include many personal observations and attention to the integrated elements of the literary text, in addition to the frugal symbols which present the theoretical fundamentals to the Arab reader.
[2] On choosing Yumna Al-Eid, Ahmed Al-Ameri, Chairman of Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), said:Dr. Yumna Al-Eid is a literary pillar which -for over forty years- has enriched the Arabic library with literary and critical works, and succeeded through her epistemic undertaking to be one of the active influentials in studying Arabic literature.
[1] In addition, she started publishing literary articles and books in the 60s, some of which are: Marxism and the Philosophy of Language by Mikhail Bachtin, co-translated with Muhammed Al-Bakri, Les Edition Toubkal, Morocco, 1983.