Salma Laqlouf .. What does the Arabs know about the Swiss writer?

Salma Laqlouf .. What does the Arabs know about the Swiss writer?

Today, the birth anniversary of the writer Salma Lavelf, the Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1909, which is the first Swedish writer to win Nobel, which has become since 1914 among the members of the Academy that grants the Nobel Awards.

Salma Laghlouf was born in 1858 in the mountainous region of Marbaka in a village belonging to the province of Varmandland on the Swedish Norwegian border in northern Sweden, her life began as a school for a period of ten years in the town of Land Skrona between 1885 and 1895, and her name in the world of literature for the first time after her first novel was published “Epic. Justa Berling “in 1891, which preached the Romantic Renaissance in Swedish literature.

By 1895, Salma Laklaf decided to leave the teaching profession to devote herself to literature, and she made a trip to Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century and stayed in Jerusalem and upon her return to her country, she published a book that included her impressions of Palestine, and one of her most famous works is “The Niles Holgosones’s wonderful journey through Sweden”, “Jerusalem”, Invisted ties, “the wonders of the Antichrist.


The Swedish writer Salma Laklaf was known for the Arabs for her journey to Jerusalem, which was aimed at writing the Jerusalem novel, at the beginning of the twentieth century, which is the novel that was translated into several languages ​​and turned into a movie in 1996.

In its novel, which was published by an Arabic edition of the Egyptian General Book Authority, with the translation of Nasr Abdel Rahman, events begin from a Swedish village in which a strict religious sect is decided to immigrate to Palestine after its isolation from society within the framework of its extremist ideas, as the tree in general appears in the case of the villagers in Sweden and the extent of their association Religion..

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