06 November 2020
Bahrain Culture Authority Mourns the Death of Novelist, Scriptwriter and Cinema Producer, Fareed Ramadan
Fareed Ramadan, a prominent key figure of the Arab and Gulf literature, creative scenarist and media tycoon, with illustrious career has left us, on 6 November 2020.
The Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities mourned, in a statement issued by it, today, Friday, novelist and scriptwriter Farid Ramadan, who died at the age of 59 years after a struggle with illness. Bahrain’s Authority of Culture and Antiquities paid him tribute calling him a “prominent cultural figure and writer who has boosted his homeland’s name in the Gulf and Arab communities of creativity. “He was an example of the non-stop innovators and left behind a legacy and an output that will remain immortal in our Bahraini, Gulf and Arab cultural memory,” it added in a statement.
Born in Bahrain’s area of Al Muharraq in 1961, Ramadan made a big name as a storywriter since the early 1980s. He began publishing his anecdotal experiences in the Bahraini and Gulf press at the beginning of the eighties of the last century. In 1984 he published his first collection of short stories, “The White”’ Short Stories, 1984. He released his first fictional works; Enlightenment »; A cloud for Bab Al Bahrain in 1994 for the publications of Kalimat Book issued by the family of writers and writers in Bahrain. His novel Al-Sawafih, Maa Al-Naim (2000), won first prize in the field of Bahraini fiction by the Ministry of Information in 2007. His last novel was “The English Ocean” published in 2018.
Deceased scenarist, Ramadan, also wrote scenarios for dozens of cinematic works, such as “A Bahraini Story,” “Visitor,” “Sleeping Tree,” “Circular Spaces,” and other cinematic works. He also wrote theatrical scripts, the most important of which are: “Darb al-Musal,” which won the first prize in the Bahraini Ministry of Information’s theater writing competition in 2005. Some of his films won prestigious awards such as “Skoun”, which won the award for best screenplay at the Gulf Film Festival for the Gulf Cooperation Council States in Kuwait 2013, and “Rainbow” as best screenplay at the Wasit International Film Festival for Short Films in Iraq 2016.
