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Fiction in Translation
English edition
288 pp.
Paperback
13X20.5 cm
$16.95
LE180
ISBN 9789774168215
For sale worldwide
288 pp.
Paperback
13X20.5 cm
$16.95
LE180
ISBN 9789774168215
For sale worldwide
is a journalist and novelist, and currently works as an editor at the literary magazine Akhbar al-Adab. His first novel On the Occasion of Life was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He lives in Cairo.
is the translator of Otared by Mohammad Rabie and Women of Karantina by Nael Eltoukhy, among other books. His translation for Writing Revolution won the 2013 English PEN Award for outstanding writing in translation. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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