Fiction
The list consists of six novels that will be selected from the 16 novels that reached the recently announced long list.
The Man Booker International Prize has announced that six novels will be competing to win £50,000.
The novel Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne takes a look at what happens when both good and greedy intentions to help a Syrian refugee go wrong.
Polish drama film ‘The Last Family’ will screen at Balcon Heliopolis on August 21.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was launched in April 2007 in Abu Dhabi. It was modeled on the esteemed Man Booker Prize to acknowledge high quality works of Arabic fiction, and celebrate the writers.
Saudi Arabian novelist Mohammed Hassan Alwan was declared the winner of the 10th International Prize for ¬Arabic Fiction for his novel “A Small Death.”
