IPAF 2024
Discover the past winners and shortlisted titles below to discover some of the most compelling voices in modern Arabic literature.
Winner 2024
A Mask, the Colour of the Sky
Dar al-Adab
Nur, an archaeologist living in a refugee camp in Ramallah, finds a blue identity card belonging to an Israeli in the pocket of an old coat. He adopts the mask of the occupier in an attempt to understand the Zionist mindset.
The shortlist
Judges
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.
