On Thursday, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) announced the longlisted novels for the 2024 prize, which will award $50,000.
16 novels from a total of 133 books which were published in Arabic between July 2022 and June 2023 were selected for the longlist.
The jury that selected the longlisted books was chaired by Syrian writer Nabil Suleiman. In addition, it included Palestinian writer, researcher and academic Sonia Nimr, Czech academic František Ondráš, Egyptian critic and journalist Mohamed Shoair, and Sudanese writer and journalist Hammour Ziada.
The selection includes four authors who have been previously selected by IPAF: Raja Alem, joint winner of the Prize in 2011; Mohammed Abdel Nabi, longlisted in 2013 and shortlisted in 2016; Rashid al-Daif, longlisted in 2012; and Amin Zaoui, longlisted in 2013 and 2018, and also a former judge (2020).
The full list of the longlisted novels are as follows:
Mohammed Abdel Nabi (Egypt) - "Nearly Every Day"
Badriya Albadri (Oman) - "Foumbi"
Raja Alem (KSA) - "Bahbel: Makkah Multiverse 1945-2009"
Sara Alsarraf (Iraq) - "I Heard Everything"
Rima Bali (Syria) - "Suleima's Ring"
Rashid al-Daif (Lebanon) - "The Other Face of the Shadow"
Osama al-Eissa (Palestine) - "The Seventh Heaven of Jerusalem"
Dorra al-Fazi' (Tunisia) - "I Hide Passion"
Saleh al-Hamad (KSA) - "Eye of the Kite"
Basim Khandaqji (Palestine) - "A Mask, the Colour of the Sky"
Ahmed Menour (Algeria) - "Storm Over the Islands"
Ahmed al-Morsi (Egypt) - "Gambling on the Honour of Lady Mitsy"
Eissa Nasiri (Morocco) - "The Mosaicist"
Salha Obeid (UAE) - "Spice Circle"
Sufyan Rajab (Tunisia) - "Reader of the Tanners' Alley"
Amin Zaoui (Algeria) - "The Idols"
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