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The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (Arabic: الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.
Ibrahim Nasrallah (Arabic: إبراهيم نصر الله; 2 December 1954), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were evicted from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp in Jordan, and began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia.
Jokha Alharthi (Arabic: جوخة الحارثي), also spelt al-Harthi, is an Omani writer and academic, known for winning the Man Booker International Prize in 2019 for her novel Sayyidat al-Qamar (Arabic: سيدات القمر), published in English under the title Celestial Bodies. Alharthi is the first Arab author to win the Man Booker ...
Rima Bali (Arabic: ريما بالي, born 1969 in Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary Arabic fiction.The author of four novels, she is mostly known for having been shortlisted for the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) based in Abu Dhabi and mentored by the Booker Prize Foundation in London.
The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel is an Arabic literary prize based in Qatar. It was established in 2014 by the Doha-based Katara Cultural Village . The total prize pool is $650,000 and the main prize $200,000, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world .
Longlisted for Arab Booker Prize, the novel Kings of the Sands. (2009) The Every Human Has Rights Award, the international award for journalistic reporting, for the book Navigating the Space Between Home and Exile.(2008,Paris) Longlisted, the Arab Booker Prize for the novel The Tobacco Keeper. (2008)
Alem was joint winner of the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for her novel The Doves' Necklace. This renowned prize is administered by the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and is funded by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT). She shared the prize with the Moroccan writer Mohammed Achaari. [10]
Jabbour Douaihy (Arabic: جبور الدويهي; 1949 – 23 June 2021) was a critically-acclaimed Lebanese writer, translator, and professor of literature. [1] His novels were nominated four times for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and he has also published translations, short story collections, and children's books.