Fouad al-Tikerly [SEP] cause of death
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party or the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Al-Tikerly moved to Tunisia in 1990 after the death of his wife. He later remarried the Tunisian novelist Rachida Turki.
The government of the United Arab Emirates awarded al-Tikerly with the Owais Prize for Arabic-language novels and literature in 2000.
Death.
Fouad al-Tikerly died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in Amman, Jordan, on February 11, 2008, at the age of 80. He and his family had been
Fouad al-Tikerly
Fouad al-Tikerly (Arabic: فؤاد التكرلي) (August 22, 1927 – February 11, 2008) was a prominent Iraqi novelist and writer, best known for his groundbreaking novel "al-Rajea al-Baeed", translated into English as "The Long Way Back". Al-Tikerly was one of the last surviving members of a group of well known Iraqi novelists from the 1970s.
Biography.
Al-Tikerly was born in Baghdad in 1927. At school he became