Mohanned al-Dabi
2017 Participant

Mohanned al-Dabi (Sudan) is a writer born in Al-Qadarif, Sudan, in 1985. He has worked as an editor and manager of the cultural supplement of the Sudanese "Al-Tayyar" newspaper. His short story, Shadow, won the 2014 Al-Tayib Saleh International Award for Creative Writing, in the short story category. He has two published novels: Enchanters of the River Bank (2014) and The Violence of the Meteors (2016), and a short story collection, Shadow (2016), as well as a forthcoming novel, The Forgotten Jew, and another short story collection, What Happened Behind the Wall, both to be released at the Riyadh Book Fair in March 2018.