Jana Elhassan

Jana Elhassan (Arabic: جنى الحسن; born 1985) is a Lebanese award-winning novelist and short story writer from Lebanon. She has worked as a newspaper journalist and television writer since 2008.

Elhassan was born in Btouratij, Koura District. Her first novel Forbidden Desires won the Simon Hayek Award,^[1] and both her second novel, Me, She and Other Women, and third novel, Ninety Ninth Floor, were shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction.^[1] Her third novel was the first to be translated into English. Both the shortlisted novels are translated into Italian.

In 2015, Elhassan was listed among the BBC's 100 women, a two-week season program featuring inspiring women around the world.^[2]