Hanan al-Shaykh (November 12, 1945) is a Lebanese novelist and writer.
From the town of Arnoun in Jabal Amel (southern Lebanon).
She was born in the town of Arnoun in 1945.
She completed her studies in Cairo.
She has lived and traveled to many countries, from Beirut to Cairo, Saudi Arabia, and finally London.
She wrote her first novel at the age of nineteen.
She worked for the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar and the Lebanese magazine Al-Hasnaa for a period.
Her novels have been translated into twenty-one languages.