Walking in the Dust
May Menassa
May Menassa’s novel celebrates a memory scarred by the tragedies of ward and loss in today’s world.
Nomination
2008 Shortlist
May Menassa
Country of origin Lebanon
About the author
May Menassa was born in Beirut in 1939 and holds a postgraduate diploma in French Literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist in 1959. She was the first woman broadcaster in the early days of Lebanese television and presenter of the “Women of Today” programme. She has worked as a literary and music critic for the Lebanese newspaper An Nahar since 1969. She has published 10 novels, as well as two children’s books and has worked on many translations, mainly from French into Arabic.