Discover the past winners and shortlisted titles below to discover some of the most compelling voices in modern Arabic literature.
Dar al-Adab
Yasir Suleiman, Chair of the Board of TrusteesThe longlist for this year’s prize cycle displays a larger than usual variety of voices from different parts of the Arabic speaking world, some of whom are newcomers to the world of the novel. Rooted in their local environments, some works provide unsettling narrations of the situations they encounter, to reveal the entrenched social and political ills pervading those environments.
