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Sharifa al-Qiyadi

Died in 2014

Sharifa al-Qiyadi was born in 1947 in Tripoli. A graduate in letters of the teachers' training college in 1967, she obtained a master's degree in letters at the University of Tripoli in 1981; her dissertation became a study of Libyan women's writing, published in 1997. She wrote for the Libyan and Arab press, devised radio programmes, among them one on pioneering women, and taught at the university. A short-story writer and novelist, she belongs to the first generation of Libyan women novelists. She died in 2014.

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