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Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist who has been a prominent advocate for human rights, and more specifically women’s rights, in Syria. In 2010, Yazbek was selected as one of the “39 most promising authors under the age of 40” by Beirut39, organized by the Hay Festival. In 2011, she took part in the popular uprising against the Assad regime and was forced into exile soon after. In 2012 she was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize “International writer of courage” for her book In the Crossfire, and received the Swedish Tucholsky Prize and the Dutch Oxfam/PEN Prize the following year. In 2022 Yazbek was appointed by the Royal Society of Literature as one of twelve International Writers. Yazbek has published two short-story collections, seven novels, and four nonfiction literary narratives. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
