Writers shortlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) were announced today, representing six nations: Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Oman, Libya, Iraq, and Egypt.
The shortlist includes:
– The Highest Part of the Horizon by Fatima Abdulhamid
– Drought by Al-Sadiq Haj Ahmed
– The Exile of the Water Diviner by Zahran Alqasmi
– Concerto Qurina Eduardo by Najwa Binshatwan
– The Stone of Happiness by Azher Jirjees
– Days of the Shining Sun by Miral al-Tahawy
The 16th IPAF shortlist was revealed in a virtual press conference by this year’s Chair of Judges, Moroccan writer and novelist Mohammed Achaari.
Achaari appeared alongside fellow judges – Egyptian academic and novelist Reem Bassiouney, Algerian novelist, researcher and journalist Fadhila El Farouk, Swedish university professor and translator Tetz Rooke, and Omani writer and academic Aziza al-Ta’I – as well as Moroccan Yassin Adnan, an IPAF Trustee, and Prize Administrator Fleur Montanaro.
The winner will be announced on May 21, 2023 in Abu Dhabi, and will receive $50,000, whereas each of the six shortlisted authors will receive $10,000 each.
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.
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