Fawaz Haddad

Fawaz Haddad is a Syrian novelist born in Damascus. A full-time writer since 1988, he has published 10 novels and a collection of short stories. He has served as a judge for several prizes for the novel in Syria. In 2009, he was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for The Unfaithful Translator and his most recent novel, God's Soldiers, was longlisted for the 2011 Prize.