Ali Al-Muqri
2021 Judge
Judge Profile:
Ali Al-Muqri is a Yemeni writer, born in Yemen in 1966 and now living in France. He has written five novels which have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Italian and Kurdish. Two of his novels were longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2009 and 2011 respectively, while the French edition of his novel Hurma (under the title Femme Interdite) received a special commendation from the jury of the 2015 Prix de la Littérature Arabe, awarded by the Institut de Monde Arabe and the Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère. Another novel, Adeni Perfume was shortlisted for the 2015 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.