Alia Mamdouh (also spelled Aliyah Mamduh) (born 1944) is an Iraqi novelist, author, and journalist living in exile in Paris, France.
She won the 2004 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her novel The Loved Ones. She is most known for her widely acclaimed and translated book Naphtalene, originally written in Arabic. Her 2020 novel The Tank was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Mamdouh was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1944. After completing her degree in psychology from ...