The International Prize for Arabic Fiction has announced six selected authors vying for a prize of $ 50,000 when the winner is revealed on May 25 and they are:
Abdulatif Ould Abdullah - ‘The Eye of Hammurabi’
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Jalal Bargas - ‘Notebooks of the Bookshop Keeper’
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Amira Ghenim- ‘The Calamity of the Nobility’
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Dunya Mikhail- ‘The Bird Tattoo'
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Abdelmajid Sebbata - ‘File 42’
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Habib Selmi- ‘Longing for the Woman Next Door’
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