12-Year-Old Arab World’s Youngest Author Pens COVID-19 Children’s Story

10 January 2022 – byGinette · 1 min read

The long period of confinement gave rise to Abir Zaïm’s passion for writing. A hidden talent that was awakened during this difficult ordeal. At 12 years old, she delves into the realities that children have experienced with the spread of Covid-19 in her first book.

By publishing her first book at just 12 years old, Abir has become the youngest writer in the Arab world. She was inspired by everything that is happening around her, the realities that surround her. In this work, it is Covid, as experienced by children, that inspired her. "They had grasped the upheaval of the world in the era of the epidemic and their lives have not been spared," Abir tells SNRT News.

"The Boat of Death", the title of her work, has already earned her the national reading prize and most recently, the literary creation prize in Egypt. A giant step for the young writer whose ambitions are great. She intends to work to become a world-renowned novelist.