The Year of the Radio
Renée Hayek
Set in contemporary Beirut, The Year of the Radio is the story of a young female speech therapist working in a school on a limited contract. At the end of the school year, this contract is terminated and she tries different things before finding a job for a year at a radio station. Here she works as a psychologist, presenting live programmes in which she offers advice to the parents of children with speech and psychological problems. Over the course of a year, we follow her experiences of love, loss, work, illness and unemployment.
Nomination
2017 Longlist
Renée Hayek
Country of origin Lebanon
About the author
Renée Hayek is a Lebanese novelist, born in southern Lebanon in 1959. She studied Philosophy at the Lebanese University before embarking on a career in journalism, literary translation and teaching. She has published two collections of short stories and ten novels including: The Well and the Sky (1997), The Land of the Snows (2001), Days of Paris (2004), Prayer for the Family (2007), longlisted for the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and A Short Life (2010), longlisted for the 2011 Prize.