winner Stories Novels & Drama
Fifth Circle 1996-1997

• Born in Iskandaroun, Northern Syria, 1935
• Attained his elementary and secondary education in Aleppo’s schools
• Did his BS in Agricultural Engineering from Alexandria university, 1958
• Worked at Aleppo Dept. of Economy and Aleppo University’s Agriculture College
• Started working at Aleppo’s General Est. of Cotton Industry in 1966
• Headed Agricultural Engineers Union in Aleppo
• Chaired the Arab Writers Union in Aleppo
• Co-founded People’s Theatre, National Theatre and Cinema Club in Aleppo
• Former editor of Al Mowqif Al Adabi
• His father was Editor-in-Chief of Al Itisam magazine late in the 1920s and early 1930s which was closed down by the French occupation
• A prolific writer who produced short stories, novels, plays, research, editorials and poetry
• His works were translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Armenian, Russian, Serbian, Polish, etc. 

Awards

• Damascus’ Arab Writers Union Award, 1990

Decision of the General Secretariat

The novels and dramas of Walid Ekhlassi are diverse, and contain a variety of styles and forms. This emanates from an experience that is committed to the Arab cause. It combines realism with the unusual and the present with history, all in an open style.

Famous Works

• The World before and after, 2 plays
• The Dry Sea’s Winter, novel
• Blood in a Dusty Morning, short stories
• Beautiful Lady’s Bosom, novel
• The Age of Short Trees, short stories
• The Mud, short stories
• Astonishment in Cold Eyes, short stories
• The Report, short stories
• The Way, play
• Seven Hoarse Voices, short plays
• Democratic Night, 2 plays
• The Death of Snail, 2 stories
• Domestic Hanzal, novel
• Black Weeds, short stories
• That Crazy River, play
• Who Killed the Birds, 2 plays
• Oh, Tree, short stories
• Sandalwood’s Flower, novel
• Khan Al Ward, short stories
• A piece of homeland on an Ancient Coast
• Hoopoe’s Tales, novel
• Songs for the Single Model, 4 short plays
• Babul Jamr, novel
• The Last Pleasure, study
• Who Kills the Widow, 5 plays
• Pleasure House, novel
• What Happened to Antara
• Sword and Shield
• Minor Epic of Killing
• Game of Sin and Fate
• Imperfect Portrait of the Theatre