Tag: International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2020
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Abdelouahab Aissaoui is International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2020 winner.
Abdelouahab Aissaoui’s novel The Spartan Court won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2020 today, April 14, 2020. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction, founded in 2007, is given to the best novel written in Arabic in the previous year. It is run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and sponsored…
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Coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on World, African literature.
The Coronavirus pandemic has been wreaking havoc on literary communities around the world in recent weeks. The Coronavirus, according to Wikipedia, is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019 and recognised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on…
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Three Africans on International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2020 shortlist.
Abdelouahab Aissaoui, Said Khatibi, and Youssef Ziedan are the three Africans on the shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2020 announced today, February 4, 2020. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction, launched in 2007, is considered the most important literary prize in the Arab world today. The prize, given to best novel written…