Longlist 2021

Two Green Eyes
Hamed al-Nazir
Sudan
Dar Tanweer - Lebanon
The Orchards of Basra
Mansoura Ez Eldin
Egypt
Dar Mim
The Night Bird
Amara Lakhous
Algeria
Manshurat al-Hibr
The Life of Butterflies
Youssef Fadel
Morocco
Al-Mutawassit
M for Murderer: S for Sa’id
Abdullah Albsais
Kuwait
Riwayat
J
Sara al-Nams
Algeria
Dar al-Adab
Hole to Heaven
Abdullah Al-Eyaf
Saudi Arabia
Dar Rashm
Daughter of the Tigris
Muhsin Al-Ramli
Iraq
Dar al-Mada
Boxes of Desire
Abbas Baydoun
Lebanon
Dar al-Ain
Fruit for the Crows
Ahmed Zein
Yemen
Al-Mutawassit

2021 Longlist

29/03/2021

Shortlist announced for 2021 International Prize for Ar...
Monday 29th March 2021: The Eye of Hammurabi by Abdulatif Ould Abdullah, Notebooks of the Bookshop Keeper by Jalal Bargas, The Calamity of the Nobility by Amira Ghenim,...
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27/03/2021

Interview with longlisted author Hamed al-Nazir
When did you begin writing Two Green Eyes and where did the inspiration for it come from? The idea came to me in 2015, when the trial of Mariam Yehye began in Khartoum. She...
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27/03/2021

Interview with longlisted author Abdullah Al-Eyaf
When did you begin writing Hole to Heaven and where did the inspiration for it come from? My journey with the novel began in the final months of 2015 and early 2016. The...
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