Ibrahim Nasrallah (Jordan-Palestine) was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents, living in exile in Jordan. He spent his childhood and youth in the Alwehdat Palestinian Refugee Camp in Amman and began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia. After returning to Amman, he worked as a journalist and for the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation. Since 2006, he has been a full-time writer and has so far published 14 poetry collections and 16 novels, including his epic fictional project of 8 novels covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history. Three of his novels and a volume of poetry have been translated into English, including his novel Time of White Horses which was IPAF-shortlisted in 2009 and is currently nominated to receive the London-based Middle East Monitor Prize for the Best Novel about Palestine. His novel Lanterns of the King of Galilee, IPAF longlisted in 2013, will appear in English in January 2015. Three of his novels have been translated into Italian, one into Danish and one into Turkish. He is also an artist and photographer and has had four solo exhibitions of his photography. He has won eight literary prizes, among them the prestigious Sultan Owais Literary Award for Poetry in 1997; his novel Prairies of Fever was chosen by the Guardian newspaper as one of the most important 10 novels written about the Arab world. In 2012, he won the inaugural Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity for his literary work.