Mona Latif-Ghattas

Mona Latif-Ghattas (born August 7, 1946) is an Egyptian-born Canadian writer living in Quebec.[1]

Mona Latif-Ghattas
Born (1946-08-07) August 7, 1946
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityCanada
Genrenovel, short story, poetry

She was born in Cairo. She left Egypt in 1966 for Montreal, studied theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal and went on to earn a master's degree in drama at the Université de Montréal.[1][2]

She published her first novel Nicolas, le fils du Nil in 1985 and her first collection of poetry La triste beauté du monde in 1993. In 1996, she published a collection of short stories Les lunes de miel.[3] Her work has appeared in the journals Humanitas, Pratiques Théâtrales and La Nouvelle Barre du jour. Latif-Ghattas' poetry collection Ambre et lumière received the Prix du Salon international des poètes francophones. She has published work in both French and Arabic.[1]

References
  1. "Latif Ghattas, Mona" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  2. Makward, Christiane P; Cottenet-Hage, Madeleine (1996). Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française: de Marie de France à Marie NDiaye (in French). pp. 275–77. ISBN 2865376761.
  3. New, William H (2002). Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. pp. 631–32. ISBN 0802007619.
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