The General Union of Writers and Authors in Iraq mourned the short story writer and novelist, Mahmoud Saeed, who passed away the day before yesterday , Tuesday, in his exile in the city of Chicago in the United States of America .
The union said in a statement: “The short story writer and novelist, Mahmoud Saeed, passed away on Tuesday morning , in his exile in the city of Chicago, at the age of (86) years, after suffering from illness .”
The late writer was born in Mosul in 1939. He wrote more than twenty novels and short story collections in the field of narrative, and won the short story award in the “Fata Al-Iraq” newspaper in 1956. He
published “The Ominous Rifle”, “Port Said and Other Stories”, “A Stagnant Market Noise”, “The Butchers’ Strike”, and “February, an Old Case ”.
The Library Thing website in New York considered his novel ” Saddam City” one of the fifty best novels in the world, and Amnesty International chose him among thirty writers from around the world to write short stories about the principles of nations, to be published in an anthology in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its establishment .
