International Prize for Arabic Fiction Reveals 2025 Longlist
- Publish date: Wednesday، 08 January 2025
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The longlist for the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was revealed recently, featuring 16 novels running for a $50,000 prize.
The longlist was chosen from a total of 124 submissions by a panel of five judges. The panel features Egyptian academic Mona Baker, Moroccan academic and critic Said Bengrad, Emirati critic and academic Maryam Al-Hashimi, Lebanese researcher and academic Bilal Orfali, and Finnish translator Sampsa Peltonen.
The 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist:
- Aqeel Almusawi’s 'The Weepers' (Bahrain)
- Inam Bioud’s 'Houwariya' (Algeria)
- Rashid Al-Daif’s 'What Zeina Saw and What She Didn’t' (Lebanon)
- Ahmed Fal Al-Din’s 'Danshmand' (Mauritania)
- Jan Dost’s 'The French Prisoner' (Syria)
- Sausan Jamil Hasan’s 'Heiress of the Keys' (Syria)
- Iman Humaydan’s 'Songs for the Darkness' (Lebanon)
- Azher Jirjees 'The Valley of the Butterflies' (Iraq)
- Hasan Kamal’s 'The Stolen Novel' (Egypt)
- Taissier Khalaf’s 'The Andalusian Messiah' (Syria)
- Ahmed Al-Malawany’s 'Happy Dreams' (Egypt)
- Mohamed Samir Nada’s 'The Prayer of Anxiety' (Egypt)
- Nadia Najar’s 'The Touch of Light' (United Arab Emirates)
- Haneen Al-Sayegh’s 'The Women’s Charter' (Lebanon)
- Sumar Shihada’s 'My Life Has Just Begun' (Syria)
- Ayman Ragab Taher’s 'The Lamplighter' (Egypt)
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