Background
Awad Saud Awad was born in 1943 in Job Josef – Safad in Palestine.
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Damascus.
Career
He lived in Khan First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Shih camp which the The United Nations Relief and Works Agency take the responsibility about lieutenant He got the bachelor of Arts – History -from Damascus University in 1971. They lived first three years in Khan First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Shih camp till the war of 1973, they left the camp and lived about 6 years in Joubar and then moved to Zamalka near Damascus, they have 5 children two boys and 3 girls.
In field of story and novel He started his writing at the end of 70th of the last century and he published his first stories book for children A Journey to Andromeda Galaxy, in 1981. he was the president of the Association of the story and the novel in the Arab Writers Union – Damascus, Syria during the years 2005 to 2006 and 2009 to 2010.
He delegated by the Arab Writers Union to visit Turkey to provide a study on the history of at Syria in June 2008. In the field of folklore and heritage He participated actively in the establishment of celebrations for the Palestinian folklore week which was conducted annually in Damascus-Syrian during the 80th of the last century and he was the supervision of the Palestinian Folklore Heritage artistic bands from 1988–1994.
He founded the Palestinian Folklore Heritage Center in DamascusSyria and he was the director of this center during 1991–1996. Awad Saud Awad is one of the important novelists in Palestine and in Syria, and he is one of the most important Arabic critics of the novel and the story in the modern era.
His critical studies which published in Arabic newspapers and magazines, are more than 200 critical studies of Arab writers from different nationalities.
Moreover, he has lot of heritage publications in specialized periodical magazines. he conducted lectures in various Syrian provinces about the and Folklore. • in Palestinian Folklore, Publisher: Department of Media and Education, Damascus 1983.
Membership
Since 1981 he became a member of Palestinian Writers and Journalists Union in Damascus – Syria. He became a member of Arab Writers Union – DamascusSyria, in 1989.
