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| 8/10/2007: Saudi Arabia: Female writers boost book production | (Published by Margrit Müller) | Saudi Arabia has seen a literary explosion in the last two years after the success of Rajaa Alsanea's "Girls of Riyadh", a taboo-breaking novel that caused a stir in the conservative Wahhabite Saudi Arabian society and went on sale in English this month.
Saudi-Arabia's literary output has doubled in 2006, with half of the authors being women. Publishing industry insiders suggest that this trend is largely due to the success of Alsanea's novel.
"I see 'Girls of Riyadh' as a turning-point for readership in Saudi Arabia," said Hassan al-Neimy, a short story writer who heads a group of Saudi literati called Hewar, Arabic for Dialogue. "The boldness of the book got women writing in the same style, publishing their own daily experiences."
Around 50 novels were published in 2006 compared with 26 in 2005, al-Neimy said. Exact figures are hard to establish since some were published outside Saudi Arabia and are hard to obtain.
"We have offered the chance to lots of young Saudi writers, especially female writers. It's a whole new phenomenon," said Hassan Ramadan from Saqi Books London office.
Novelists publishing inside Saudi Arabia normally submit their work to the ministry of information in advance. Only a handful are technically banned, but many writers resort to Arab publishers outside Saudi Arabia and leave individual bookstores inside the country the choice of whether to risk importing them.
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Bernd Fesel, DCatherine Daraspe, DTonje Berg-Dawson, NMargrit Müller, EAT - DKarin Lilja, SKatalin Hegedüs, HCaroline Ceytte, FErling Pedersen, DK - DVera Dantas, PAnna Stepniewska, PLDoris Rothauer, A
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