ربيع جابر Rabee Jaber

الروائي اللبناني ربيع جابر هو واحد من تلك الفئة القليلة بلا ريب وأحد ممثليها البارزين. روايته الأولى (سيد العتمة) التي نشرها سنة 1992 وهو في العشرين من عمره فازت بجائزة الناقد للرواية ذلك العام. نشر سبع عشرة رواية ما بين 1992 و2009 أي بمعدل رواية واحدة كل عام. بطبيعة الحال ليست غزارة الإنتاج وحدها هي ما يلفت في كتاباته بل جودتها وغناها وتنوع أجوائها ومشاربها وأساليب كتابتها التي يعرفها من قرأوا أعماله الروائية أو بعضها.

Rabee Jaber (Arabic: ربيع جابر; born 1972, Beirut) is a Lebanese novelist and journalist.

His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish and Polish.

Some of his work is included in the anthology Beirut39, published on the occasion of Beirut as World Book Capital in 2009. In 2010, Jaber was on the shortlist for the

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