Tag: Amir Tag Elsir

  • Amir Tag Elsir makes International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 shortlist

    Amir Tag Elsir makes International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 shortlist

    Sudanese author Amir Tag Elsir is on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 Shortlist that was announced on Wednesday February 21, 2018. He is on the shortlist for his novel Flowers in Flames. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is given to a novel in Arabic considered to be the best of that year.…

  • Five Africans make International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 Longlist

    Five Africans make International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 Longlist

    The International Prize for Arabic Fiction announced the longlist of 16 novels for the 2018 Prize on Wednesday 17 January 2018 with five Africans in the running. They are Egyptians Ahmed Abdel Latif and Rasha Adly, Sudan’s Amir Tag Elsir and Hamed al-Nazir,  and Algeria’s Amin Zaoui. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction, given to…

  • Six Africans make International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2017

    Six Africans make International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2017

    The International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2017 have announced their longlist for this year’s best book in Arab writing this year and six Africans made the cut. They are Yassin Adnan, Najwa Binshatwan, Amir Tag Elsir, Abdul-Kareem Jouaity, Mohammed Abdel Nabi, and Youssef Rakha. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) has today, Monday 16…