The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Arabic Booker) announces the full list of candidates for the 2013 Prize on 6 December.
The long list includes 16 novels selected from 133 entries from 15 countries. To qualify they had to have been published within the last 12 months.
The list includes three Egyptian writers: writer and journalist Ibrahim Issa for his novel Mowlana (Our Master); writer and former judge Ashraf El-Ashmawi for his novel Toya and young writer Mohammed Abdel Nabi for his novel Rogo’a El-Sheikh Ela Sebah (The Return of the Sheikh).
Also on the list are prominent Lebanese writer, Elias Khoury with his novel Sinalkul and compatriot, Rabee Jaber, who won the 2012 prize with his novel The Druze of Belgrade. Author Saad Alsanousi has the honour of representing Kuwait for the first time in the award's history.
The shortlist is expected to be announced on 9 January in Tunisia and the final winner will be announced in March 2013.
The full list, in alphabetical order:
Title
|
Author
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Nationality
|
Publisher
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Oh Mary
|
Sinan Antoon
|
Iraqi
|
Al-Jamal
|
Toya
|
Ashraf El-Ashmawi
|
Egyptian
|
Al-Dar al-Masriya al-Lubnaniya
|
The Kingdom of this Earth
|
Hoda Barakat
|
Lebanese
|
Dar al-Adab
|
Her, Other Women and I
|
Jana Elhassan
|
Lebanese
|
Arab Scientific Publishers
|
Jaffa Prepares Morning Coffee
|
Anwar Hamed
|
Palestinian
|
The Arabic Insitute for Research and Publishing
|
The Beaver
|
Mohammed Hassan Alwan
|
Saudi Arabian
|
Dar al-Saqi
|
Our Master
|
Ibrahim Issa
|
Egyptian
|
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
|
The Birds of the Holiday Inn
|
Rabee Jaber
|
Lebanese
|
Dar al-Tanwir
|
Sinalkul
|
Elias Khoury
|
Lebanese
|
Dar al-Adab
|
Lolita’s Fingers
|
Waciny Laredj
|
Algerian
|
Dar al-Adab
|
The Return of the Sheikh
|
Mohammed Abdel Nabi
|
Egyptian
|
Rawafid
|
Lanterns of the King of Galilee
|
Ibrahim Nasrallah
|
Palestinian-Jordanian
|
Arab Scientific Publishers
|
The President’s Gardens
|
Muhsin al-Ramly
|
Iraqi
|
Thaqafa
|
The Bamboo Stick
|
Saud Alsanousi
|
Kuwaiti
|
Arab Scientific Publishers
|
His Excellency the Minister
|
Hussein Al-Wad
|
Tunisian
|
Dar al-Janub
|
The Goatherd
|
Amin Zaoui
|
Algerian
|
Al-Ikhtilef
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