Novelist Mahmoud Saeed dies at age 86

INA-  Baghdad


Union of Iraqi Writers mourned the storyteller and novelist, Mahmoud Saeed, who died, on Tuesday, in in Chicago in the United States of America.
 
According to a statement by the Union, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the storyteller and novelist, Mahmoud Saeed, died on Tuesday morning, in Chicago, at the age of (86) years after disease suffering."
 
 Born in Mosul in 1939, he wrote more than twenty novels and collections of short stories in the field of narration, and won the short story prize in the newspaper "Iraq Boy" in 1956.

Union of Iraqi Writers mourned the storyteller and novelist, Mahmoud Saeed, who died, on Tuesday, in Chicago in the United States of America.
 
  According to a statement by the Union, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the storyteller and novelist, Mahmoud Saeed, died on Tuesday morning, in Chicago, at the age of (86) years after suffering from the disease."
 
  Born in Mosul in 1939, he wrote more than twenty novels and collections of short stories in the field of narration, and won the short story prize in the newspaper "Iraq Boy" in 1956.
He published “Ominous Gun, Port Saeed and Other Stories, The 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 selected him among thirty writers from the world, to write short stories about the principles of nations, to be published in Ontology, in the United Kingdom, on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.