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In addition to the prize itself, IPAF supports other literary initiatives. In 2009, IPAF launched its inaugural nadwa (writers' workshop) for emerging writers of fiction in Arabic. The prize is administered by the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and is currently funded by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT). [2]
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 ...
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.
The novel won the Abdelouahab Ben Ayad Prize. [2] Her second novel I Hide Passion (2022) was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize. [3] Dorra also writes screenplays for Arabic-language TV series, such as Destiny, Bolice, and The Days.
He has worked for Dream TV and the Rotana media network. [2] As an author, he has published three novels: What is Left of the Sun (2020), which won the Sawiris Prize in 2021, Written (2021), and Gambling on the Honour of Lady Mitsy (2023), which was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024. The plot revolves around horse-racing in Cairo in ...
2011 Arabic Booker Prize. Achaari was announced joint winner of the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize for his novel The Arch and the Butterfly.
Basem Khandakji (Arabic: باسم خندقجي, romanized: Bāsim khndqjy; born 1983) is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and prisoner, was born in 1983. His novel A Mask, the Color of the Sky won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024. [1] He has studied at An-Najah National University and Al-Quds University.
Awards Shortlisted for the inaugural Arabic Booker Prize Lebanese order of merit May Menassa ( Arabic : مي منسى ; 20 July 1939 – 19 January 2019) was a Lebanese journalist, writer, editor-in-chief, critic and translator, best known as the author of Walking in the Dust and I Killed My Mother in Order to Live .