النخلة والجيران

An Iraqi novelist and translator, born in Baghdad. He contracted tuberculosis at an early age, so he traveled to Egypt for treatment to complete his studies at the Faculty of Arts. His presence in Egypt allowed him to have direct contact with the Cairo cultural reality. He attended the councils of the most famous Egyptian writers, the Zayat Council, the Salama Musa Council, and the Naguib Mahfouz Council every Friday afternoon in the opera café. He practiced writing poetry first... but failed to do so. Since the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, he has worked in literary journalism. Ghaib Tohma Farman summarizes the stages of his literary life as follows: 1 - The stage of the Arab heritage: poetry, prose, books and the four books that Ibn Khaldun used to consider as origins and others as sequels and branches: the writer's literature, the complete, the statement and the explanation, and the book of anecdotes. 2 - The translation movement that started during the Second World War from Egypt or Syria plays to the tunes of French, English and Russian literature. 3- Going to Egypt during a period that he prepared as one of the most active times for the literary movement in this country. Among the works of fiction and stories - The Milling Harvest (a collection of stories) 1954 - Another Child (a collection of stories) 1959 - The Palm and the Neighbors (a novel) 1966 - Five Voices (a novel) 1967 - Labor (a novel) 1973 - The sacrifice (a novel) 1975 - Shadows on the window (Novel) 1979 - The Passion of Mr. Maarouf (Novel) 1980 - The Desired and Deferred (Novel) 1986 - The Compound (Novel) 1989.