Biographies: Lena Kelany - Writer

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A Syrian writer who was born in Damascus. Her mother is the well-known Syrian writer Qamar Kilani, and her father is a war staff officer in the Syrian Arab Army in the artillery force. She worked for the Arab League in the regional office of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development in Damascus until 1990. She has devoted herself to literary work since 1992 and has published her stories in Syrian magazines. She wrote for children and has many publications. She won many awards, such as the Arab Journalism Award for the year 2008, eighth session, children’s journalism category, as well as the Silver Award of the Arab Radio and Television Festival in Tunis in its fourteenth session in 2009, for the children’s drama series Golden Dreams. In 2009, the Ministry of Culture's Directorate of Children's Culture honored her. She participated as a member of the editorial board of a number of literary magazines and served as editor-in-chief of the Foreign Literature Magazine.