Haidar Haidar was born in the village of Hosn al-Bahr in the governorate of Tartous in 1936, where he received his primary education, then joined the Pedagogical Institute of Teachers in Aleppo, before settling in the capital, Damascus , and began writing for a number of periodicals.
He co-founded the Union of Arab Writers in Damascus in 1968 and was a member of its executive board.
He published collections of short stories, including ‘Tales of the Migrant Seagull’, ‘The Flood’ and ‘The Frogs’, but his novel ‘A Feast for Seaweed: Ode to Death’, published in 1983, caused a stir. of controversy when it was reprinted in 2020, since it began with a critical article in a newspaper. It refuses to harm religion and distort the image of Algeria, in which the events take place, and ends by a statement from the Academy of Islamic Research. denouncing the work and demanding its ban.
Haidar has won numerous awards, including the Locarno Film Festival Prize in Switzerland, the Carlo Vivari Festival Prize in the Czech Republic, and the Damascus New Film Festival Prize.
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