Mona Latif-Ghattas

Mona Latif-Ghattas (born August 7, 1946) is an Egyptian-born Canadian writer living in Montreal, 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 and lived in 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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