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Hanna Mina

Died in 2018

Hanna Mina was born in Latakia on 16 April 1924, into a poor family of sailors, and spent part of his childhood in Alexandretta. Successively a porter at the port, a barber and a sailor, he sent his first stories to the newspapers of Damascus, settled in the capital in 1946 and ran the daily al-Insha'. A communist, prosecuted from 1959, he lived for several years in Lebanon, China and Hungary. A founding member of the main federation of authors in the Arab world, he received the first Sultan al-Owais prize in 1991, and died in August 2018, aged ninety-four.

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