Hilal Chouman

Hilal Chouman is a Lebanese novelist and writer born in Beirut. He studied communications and electronics engineering at Jâmi’at Bâyrut Al-Arabiya, and obtained an MSc in aerospace communication systems and satellite communications. Chouman has written five novels in Arabic: Stories of Sleep (Cairo: Dar Malamih, 2008); Napolitana (Beirut: Dar Al Adab, 2010); Limbo Beirut (Beirut: Dar Al Tanweer, 2012); Once upon a Time, Tomorrow (Beirut: Dar Al Saqi, 2016) and Sadness in my Heart (Berlin: Khan AlJanub, 2022). In 2017, Limbo Beirut, translated into English by Anna Ziajka Stanton and published by University of Texas Press, was nominated for the PEN Translation Prize and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize. Currently he is in the early stages of writing his next novel, tentitively entitled Safe Space. He is also working on a graphic novel, with the working title, Not Here, Not There, with artist Emma Harake.