Khalil Alrez

Khalil Alrez is a Syrian novelist and translator, born in 1956. He has published one play and nine novels, including A White Cloud in the Window of the Grandmother (1998), Where is Safed, Youssef? (2008) and In Equal Measure (2014). His translations from Russian include Evgeny Schwartz’s Tales About Lost Time (2004), Selected Russian Short Stories (2005) and Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov (two volumes, 2007). His novel The Russian Quarter (2019) was IPAF-shortlisted in 2020.