Sahar Khalifeh is one of the Arab world’s best-known novelists. Her novels include: The End of Spring (translated by Paula Haydar), Wild Thorns (translated by Trevor LeGassick and Elizabeth Fernea), and My First and Only Love (translated by Aida Bamia).
She lives in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, and is General Director of the Women and Family Affairs Center. She has been a magazine editor and a public relations officer at Bir Zeit University, and remains an active researcher, scriptwriter, and producer of educational television programs. She received her B.A. in English and American Literature at Bir Zeit University and her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Iowa. She has won a number of prizes, including the Alberto Moravia Prize, the Cervantes Award Prize, and the Naguib Mahfouz Prize.
