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The International Prize for Arabic Fiction Prize Years | The International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Prize Years

Explore 2025 and 2024 award years and discover some of the most compelling voices in modern Arabic literature. Our full archive will be available soon.

A stack of books showing the 16 books longlisted for the international prize for arabic fiction 2025

IPAF 2025

Winner

The Prayer of Anxiety

Shortlist

The Andalusian Messiah
Danishmand
The Touch of Light
The Valley of the Butterflies
The Women’s Covenant

Longlist

The French Prisoner
Happy Dreams
Heiress of the Keys
Houwariya
The Lamplighter
My Life Has Just Begun
Songs for the Darkness
The Stolen Novel
The Weepers
What Zeina Saw and What She Didn’t

A stack of books showing the 16 books longlisted for the international prize for arabic fiction 2024

IPAF 2024

Winner

A Mask, the Colour of the Sky

Shortlist

Bahbel: Makkah Multiverse 1945-2009
Gambling on the Honour of Lady Mitzi
The Mosaicist
The Seventh Heaven of Jerusalem
Suleima’s Ring

Longlist

Eye of the Kite
Foumbi
I Heard Everything
I Hide Passion
The Idols
Nearly Every Day
The Other Face of the Shadow
Reader of the Tanners' Alley
Spice Circle
Storm Over the Islands