Catch up on the 2024 prize before this year’s winner announcement
Celebrate the achievements of last year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction winner and shortlisted authors.
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Introducing the 2025 shortlisted novels
Professor Yasir Suleiman, Chair of the Board of TrusteesThis is a shortlist to savour and enjoy for its range of themes, stylistic artistry, diversity of voices and demographic spread. The anthropological framework in some of the novels takes the reader on journeys of discovery in which the narration strays onto less trodden pathways in Arab cultural life.
Shortlist
In the spotlight
19/02/2025
Shortlist announced for the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The six shortlisted works for the 18th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). The winner will be announced on Thursday 24 April 2025.
16/04/2025
Interview with longlisted author Ayman Ragab Taher
15/04/2025
Exploring The Women’s Charter with Author Haneen Al-Sayegh
15/04/2025
In discussion with shortlisted author Taissier Khalaf
02/04/2025
In conversation with longlisted author Inam Bioud
Winner 2024
A Mask, the Colour of the Sky
Dar al-Adab
Nabil Suleiman, Chair of the 2024 JudgesA Mask, the Colour of the Sky fuses the personal with the political in innovative ways. It ventures into experimenting with new narrative forms to explore three types of consciousness: that of the self, the Other, and the world. It dissects a complex, bitter reality of family fragmentation, displacement, genocide, and racism.
