Suad Amiry

Suad Amiry () (born 1951) is a Palestinian author and architect living in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Education Her parents went from Palestine to Amman, Jordan. She was brought up there and went to Lebanon's capital of Beirut to study architecture. She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, the University of Michigan, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Personal life When she returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981, she met Salim Tamari, whom she married later, and stayed. Career Her book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law has been translated into 19 languages, the last one in Arabic, which was a bestseller in France, and was awarded in 2004 the prestigious Viareggio Prize in Italy together with Italo-Israeli Manuela Dviri, a journalist, playwright, and writer whose son was killed by a Hezbollah rocket during a confrontation while he was serving in the Israeli Army.