(MENAFN) Emily Nasrallah, a Lebanese author who conveyed women's experiences in her writing about Lebanon's civil war, has died at the age of 87, her daughter said according to The National.
Maha Nasrallah said her mother passed away in Beirut on Tuesday following a battle with cancer.
After was wrote about determination, migration and the terror of Lebanon's 1975-1990 Civil War, she was awarded with many regional and international prizes for her work.
She possessed a distinctively hybrid style that melded the poetic with the descriptive, said Sirene Harb, an associate professor of comparative literature at the American University of Beirut. Several of her books were translated into foreign languages.
"You really travel through the pages. It's not anymore a book that you have in front of you, it's something you have inside of you," said Ms Harb.
Her feminism was "reflected in her representation of strong and rebellious female characters, and role models who challenge patriarchal traditions," said Ms Harb.
Birds of September continues to be taught in schools throughout Lebanon.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri tweeted: "Lebanon and the Arab world lost an icon of literature and Lebanese creativity, and a women's rights activist."
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