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Iman Humaydan Younes is a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, and freelance journalist....
Sectarianism as a Dead End for Lebanon
Ms Humaydan Younes, you've experienced war and written about it. You left your country for a time and emigration is one of the key subjects of your civil war novel "B for Beirut." You also come from a family which lived on the land only two generations ago and bred silk-worms, which is the starting point for your second novel "Wild Mulberries." How much fiction, how much autobiography is there in your novels?
Iman Humaydan Younes: My novels are fiction.
In "Wild Mulberries" there is some information which my father gave me, but it is not an autobiographical novel.
B as in Beirut By Iman Humaydan Younes, Max Weiss ; Condition.
The protagonist Sara is a fictional person. However there is an episode from my family history which inspired me. The second wife of my grandfather ran away from him. She escaped from the violence and power-hunger of this patriarch, but her later history is unknown.
I was happy for the woman when I heard her story; as I say, it inspired me.
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