Hilal Chouman is a Lebanese novelist and writer born in Beirut. Chouman has written five novels in Arabic: Stories of Sleep (Cairo: Dar Malamih, 2008); Napolitana (Beirut: Dar Al Adab, 2010); Limbo Beirut (Beirut: Dar Al Tanweer, 2012); Once upon a Time, Tomorrow (Beirut: Dar Al Saqi, 2016) and Sadness in my Heart (Berlin: Khan AlJanub, 2022). In 2017, Limbo Beirut, translated into English by Anna Ziajka Stanton and published by University of Texas Press, was nominated for the PEN Translation Prize and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize. Chouman currently resides in Toronto, Canada.