Omani author Jokha Alharthi discusses her novel Celestial Bodies at the 2020 New Zealand Arts Festival

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Record breaking author Jokha Alharthi

Adelaide Writers’ Week

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Arab Writers – Going Global: Hoda Barakat, Jokha Alharthi & Marilyn Booth

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 Man Booker International Prize: Jokha Alharthi is first Arabic winner 

Omani author Jokha Alharthi has won this year’s Man Booker International Prize – the first Arabic writer to do so.

Her novel Celestial Bodies centres on the lives of three sisters and their families coming to terms with social changes in Oman.

Judges described it as “a richly imagined, engaging and poetic insight”.

Reference: BBC News 

Video about Announcing ManBooker Winner for 2019

The Best International Novel of 2019

Underlining the Book Festival’s commitment to international ideas, we celebrate the finest translated fiction of the year. In May, Jokha Alharthi became the first Arabic language writer to win the Man Booker International Prize for her searing novel.

Reference: Edinburgh International Book Festival