Ulfat Idilbi

Ulfat Idilbi was born in 1912 in Damascus, into a family of notables; her mother's grandfather, a Daghestani, had been exiled for having fought the Russians. Married in 1929, at seventeen, to the physician Hamdi Idilbi, before she had finished her studies, she pursued her education on her own and in 1947 sent her first short story to a London radio competition, which ranked it third. She published story collections from the fifties onward, then, past sixty, two novels. An activist for women's education, regarded as the doyenne of Syrian fiction, she died in Paris on 21 March 2007.

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• NovelSabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweetدمشق يا بسمة الحزنUlfat Idilbi · 1980Literature