Qasim Tawfiq

Qasim Tawfiq is a Jordanian novelist and short story writer. He spent his childhood and youth and is still residing in Amman, studied in its schools, and completed his university education at the University of Jordan. He graduated with a BA in Literature. He worked in the banking sector since graduating from the University of Jordan in several Arab countries and the world until he retired to devote himself to his literary project, the novel, in 2013 as an assistant general manager in a Jordanian bank.

His life

He began writing in 1974, publishing several short stories in Jordanian and Arab newspapers and magazines. He published his first collection of short stories while studying at the University of Jordan, entitled It Is Time for Us to Rejoice, in 1977. His name emerged in the world of literature locally and in the Arab world with the publication of his first novel, Mary Rose Crossing the City of the Sun, which received broad responses for its creativity at the subject and text level; the novel was reprinted in 2007 in Ramallah, Palestine, by Shepherd House, and its third edition was issued in Amman 2010. He won the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2018 for his novel Bleeding of the Little Bird, which was translated into English and released in 2019 by Katara.

Qasim Tawfiq is considered the first to write about Amman, unlike what was prevalent among most Jordanian writers who were heading to "the nowhere" in their writings.

Literary biography

Many studies, books, doctoral and master theses have dealt with the literature of Qasim Tawfiq, whose authors reveal Qasim Tawfiq's literary and human capabilities, including:

1 - The Book “Narrative Philosophy - A Critical Approach to the Dynamics” of Narrative Expression by Qasim Tawfiq, by Dr.