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Palestinian prisoner in Israel wins top fiction prize

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ABU DHABI: Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, jailed 20 years ago in Israel, won a prestigious prize for Arabic fiction on Sunday for his novel “A Mask, the Color of the Sky.” The award of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced at a ceremony in Abu Dhabi. The prize was accepted on Khandaqji’s behalf by Rana Idriss, owner of Dar Al-Adab, the book’s Lebanon-based publisher. Khandaqji was born in the Israeli-occupied West…

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Jailed In Israel, Palestinian Writer Wins International Prize For Arabic Fiction

Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, jailed 20 years ago in Israel, won a prestigious prize for Arabic fiction on Sunday for his novel "A Mask, the Colour of the Sky". The award of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced at a ceremony in Abu Dhabi. The prize was accepted on Khandaqji's behalf by Rana Idriss, owner of Dar al-Adab, the book's Lebanon-based publisher. Khandaqji was born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of…

16 days ago·New Delhi, India

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The Star Kuala Lumpur

Palestinian prisoner in Israel wins top fiction prize

ABU DHABI (AFP): Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, jailed 20 years ago in Israel, won a prestigious prize for Arabic fiction on Sunday (April 29) for his novel A Mask, the Colour of the Sky. Read full story

16 days ago·Malaysia

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Arab News

Palestinian prisoner in Israel wins top fiction prize

16 days ago·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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La Vanguardia

A Palestinian author imprisoned in Israel wins the Arab 'Booker'

The best novel published in Arabic is written by a Palestinian author from an Israeli prison. This was determined this Sunday by the jury of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, popularly known as the Arab Booker, who awarded the prize to Basim Khandaqji (Nablus, Palestine, 1983) for the novel A mask, the colour of the sky (2023), written entirely behind bars. The writer, arrested in 2004 at only 21 years old, is accused of terrorism and …

16 days ago·Granada, Spain

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القدس العربي

A Palestinian walker's story in Israel wins an Arab Book Award.

Abu Dhabi: The Israeli prisoner-of-war Palestinian novel "The Curse of the Blue Sky" won the international award for Arabic novel "Booker," in its seventeenth installment in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on Sunday. The announcement came at the annual Abu Dhabi awards ceremony, and it was placed on the shortlist for the award, which was announced last February, the Egyptian novel...

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arabicfiction.org

A Mask, the Colour of the Sky wins 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction | International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Sunday 28 April 2024: A Mask, the Colour of the Sky by Basim Khandaqji was today named as the winner of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in an announcement by Chair of Judges Nabil Suleiman during the annual award ceremony in Abu Dhabi (also streamed online).

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