The cycle of departure .. Death misses the Iraqi novelist and translator, Nasra Al-Saadoun

Iraqi novelist and translator Nassira Al-Saadoun died at the age of 74 in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after a struggle with illness. She was known as a writer, novelist and translator, and a number of books and translations were issued to her.

Nazareth was born in the Iraqi province of Wasit in 1946, and she studied economics and political science at the University of Baghdad, from which she graduated in 1966, worked as a general manager at the Ministry of Culture and Information, and headed the editor of the Baghdad Observer newspaper and was a member of the Iraqi Writers Union.

She is the widow of the author Mustafa Tawfiq Al-Mukhtar, a member of the Iraqi Scientific Academy. She was also known as a writer, novelist and translator, and a number of books were issued to her.

It is noteworthy that Nazareth, the author of "The Spiral of Departure", who won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, published novels in the first session in 2015, in which she addressed immigration abroad and the contemporary pain of Iraqis.

In her novel, “I Loved You Spectrum,” she recounts the events of war in her country in 1991, where the heroine of the story wanders among the classes of society and coexists with difficult events and circumstances.

Nazareth translated several books, including "The Flying Lion: Folk Tales from South Africa," and deals with folk stories and tales of the "Bashman" tribes. Many tales are told about the tongues of animals that offer lessons and moral judgment with surprising symbolism.

Likewise, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American novelist Edward P. Jones, in which the author tells an American historical era in which some black slaves bought their freedom with money and then owned slaves and treated them in a disgraceful way.

Also included in the late translations is the book "Flowers of Galilee" by the Russian-Israeli journalist Israel Shamir, who was one of the Israeli paratroopers' soldiers in the 1973 war before turning against Zionist thought and writing articles critical of Tel Aviv that were compiled in this book.