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About Abdallah Salim Bawazir
- Abdallah Salim Bawazir (Arabic: ??? ???? ???? ???????) (March 30, 1938 – October 7, 2004) was a renowned Yemeni novelist, short story writer, columnist and author.
- He was born in the town of Ghayl Bawazir in Hadhramaut province.
- He finished his formal schooling at the age of 16 and, due to his family's poverty, went off to Aden in search of work.
- He worked there for several years in various commercial stores before returning to Hadhramaut in 1962.
- However his stay in Mukalla, the capital of Hadhramaut, proved short-lived and he went back to Aden in 1963, working as manager of a well-known commercial store for the next 33 years.
- In 1997, he tried one more time to settle down in Mukalla but this attempt too proved unsuccessful.
- He went back to Aden for the last time to live out the final years of his life. Bawazir was a prolific author and worked across a range of genres including short stories, novels, plays, children's books, and autobiography, not to mention shorter journalistic pieces for newspapers and magazines.
- As early as the 1950s, he was writing a column in Angham (Melodies) magazine.
- His first published short story entitled "Hikaya" (A Tale) came out in 1961 in the pages of Al-Taliyaa, an Mukalla newspaper.
- Another of his stories for Al-Taliyaa entitled "The Devil's Tree" was eventually included in the national school curriculum.
- Al-Taliyaa also published his first play Al-Muhakama (The Trial) in 1962.
- His works heavily reflected the turbulent social and political scene of the 1960s. His first collection of short stories was called Al-Rimal al-Dhahabiya (The Golden Sands) and was published in 1965, bringing together stories that had previously appeared in various newspapers in Mukalla and Aden.
- His second collection was called Thawrat al-Burkan (The Eruption, 1968).
- He published several more short story collections throughout his career, the last one coming out in 1999.
- Bawazir is considered one of the pioneers of the short story format in Yemen. His many other books included novels, journalistic compilations, collections of plays and books for children.
- He also wrote a three-volume autobiography that was released posthumously in 2007.
- Bawazir died on October 7, 2004 at the age of 66 and was buried in Aden. Bawazir's work has been translated into Italian and was included in a 2009 anthology on Yemeni literature called Perle dello Yemen.
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