Hilal Chouman (Arabic: هلال شومان) (born 1982) is a Lebanese novelist and writer. He was born in Beirut and studied communications and electronics engineering at Jâmi'at Bâyrut Al-Arabiya. He then obtained an MSc in aerospace communication systems and satellite communications. He now lives and works in Toronto.[1]
Chouman has written four novels in Arabic:
- Stories of Sleep (2008)
- Napolitana (2010)
- Limbo Beirut (2012) - translated by Anna Ziajka Stanton and nominated for the PEN Translation Prize (2017) and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize (2017)
- Once Upon a Time, Tomorrow (2016)