Huda Hamed

Huda Hamed (Arabic: هدى حمد) is an Omani writer and journalist born in 1981. She has published five collections of short stories and four novels. In 2009, her short story collection Things Are Not Where They Should Be won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity and Best Omani Publication.

Biography Huda Hamed was born in Rustaq, Oman in 1981. She graduated from the University of Aleppo with a bachelor's degree in Arabic literature. After graduation, she worked as a journalist in the cultural section of the Oman newspaper. Later, she served as editor-in-chief of Day and Day, the first Omani book-review website. She currently works as editor of the Omani cultural magazine Nazwa.

In 2009, her short story Things Are Not Where They Should Be, published by Dar al-Adab, won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity and also Best Omani Publication. Her novel Who Counts the Stairs was one of six novels written during Najwa Barakat's writers' workshop that was later published by Dar al-Adab.

Works

Short-story collections Salty Gossip (Arabic title: Namima Maliha), 2006 Not Exactly Like I Want It (Arabic title: Laysa Beldabt Kma Ureed), 2009 The Orange Sign (Arabic title: Al Eshara Al Burtuqaliya), 2014 Am I Only Who Ate the Apple? (Arabic title: Ana Al Waheed Al Lathi Akala Al Tufaha?), 2018 The Wolf Contemplates Outside the Makeup Room (Taʼammal al-dhiʼb khārij ghurfat al-mikyāj), 2020

Novels Things Are Not Where They Should Be (Arabic title: Al Ashiaa Laysat Fi Makaniha), 2009 She Who Counts the Stairs (Arabic title: Alati Ta’ud Al Salalim), 2014 Cinderella of Muscat (Arabic title: Sandrella Al Muscat), 2016 Our Names (Arabic title: Asamina), 2019 They Don't Speak in Metaphor (Arabic title: La Yudhakarun fi Majaz), 2022

Works in translation

I Saw Her in My Dreams, translated by Nadine Sinno and William Taggart, 2022

Awards 2009: the short story Things Are Not Where They Should be won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity and Best Omani Publication in 2009.