International Booker Award Nominees for Arab Fiction announced Jan.7

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Tue, 08 Jan 2019 - 01:14 GMT

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CAIRO – 8 January 2019: The International Booker Award for Arabic Fiction announced on Jan. 7 the list of long novels nominated for the 2019 Booker Award edition. The list includes 16 novels that were published between July 2017 and June 2018, and were selected among a total of 134 novels nominated for the award.

Seven female writers made it to the nominated winning list of long novels; a record in the history of the award, as well as novels of nine male writers, aged between 43 and 79, from nine different nationalities.

The novels address issues affecting the Arab world today, and shed light on the history of the Arab region and its rich heritage. A number of stories on the list are narrated by women; including a novel focusing on the history of modern Iraq by a female journalist and other stories of women migrating to different countries after the Lebanese civil war broke out.

The long list was chosen by a panel of five members, headed by Moroccan professor and critic Sharafuddin Madolin.

Ten authors made it to the list of nominated long novels in the Booker Award’s 2019 edition, and they are: Mohamed Abi Samra, Eman Yahya, Jalal Bergas, Hajji Gaber, Mubarak Rabea, Kafa el-Zoabie, Habib el-Sayeh, Adel Esmat, Mohamed el-Mazouz and Maysaloun Hadi.

The 16 nominated winners of the Booker Award’s long novel category are: Lebanese author Mohamed Abi Samra for his novel “Nesa’a bela athar” (Ladies without a trace), Algerian author Wasini al-A’arag for the novel “Layaly Isis” (Isis Nights), Jordanian author Jalal Bergas for his novel “Sayedat el Hawas el khams” (The ladies with the 5 senses), Lebanese author Hoda Barakat for her novel “Barid el lail” (Night postal), Eritrean author Hajji Gaber for his novel “Raghwa Sawda’a” (Black foam), Saudi author Omaima al-Khamis for her novel “Masra el gharaniq fe modon el aqiq” (The river pathway in the cities of the agate), Moroccan author Mubarak Rabea for his novel “Gharb al motawaset” (West of the Mediterranean), Jordanian author Kafa el-Zoabie for the novel “Shams bayda’a bareda” (White cold sun), Algerian author Habib el-Sayeh for his novel “Ana wa hayben” (Me and Haybem), Syrian author Shahla al-Ogaili for her novel “Seif ma’a el adou” (Summer with the enemy), Egyptian author Adel Esmat for his novel “Al wosaya” (The commandments), Iraqi author Inaam for the novel “al nabetha”, Moroccan author Mohamed el-Mazouz for the novel “be’ay zamb rahalat”, Lebanese author May Mansi for the lovel “katalt omi le’ahya” (I killed my mother to survive), Iraqi author Maysaloun Hadi for the novel “Ekhwat Mohamed” (Mohamed siblings) and last but not least Eman Yahya from Egypt for the novel “El zawga el maksikiya” (Mexican wife).

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