ADIBF<\/span> stumbles across this post and wants to invite me to interview Enard, I’d be more than willing . . . ):<\/p>\nAbdelkader Benali<\/b>
\nHome country: Morocco
\nLanguage: Dutch
\nIn brief: Abdelkader was born in Morocco but has spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he has been hailed as one of the most important young writers in the Dutch language today. His first novel, published when he was only 21 years old, was recognised with a Geertjan Lubberhuizen Prize for best literary debut. Its successor received the Libris Prize for Dutch literature. He is also a published playwright and essayist.
\nWorks include: \u2018Wedding by the Sea\u2019, \u2018The Long-Awaited\u2019<\/p>\n
Adam Haslett<\/b>
\nHome country: the United States
\nLanguage: English
\nIn brief: With a best-selling debut short story collection that was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for a National Book Award and has been translated into 15 languages, Adam is one of America\u2019s most sought-after young authors. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, The Nation, The New Yorker, a recent volume of the annual \u2018Best American Short Stories\u2019 collection and many other places, and in 2002 he was named New York Magazine\u2019s Writer-of-the-Year. He has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop and at Columbia University. His highly anticipated first novel will be released in the US in early 2010.
\nWorks include: \u2018You Are Not a Stranger Here\u2019, \u2018Union Atlantic\u2019<\/p>\n
Alawiyya Sobh<\/b>
\nHome country: Lebanon
\nLanguage: Arabic
\nIn brief: This novelist, poet and outspoken feminist has been hailed internationally for the way she has used writing to fearlessly confront some of the region\u2019s most difficult contemporary social issues. Alawiyya is also the founder and editor-in-chief of one of the Arab World\u2019s most important women\u2019s magazines. In 2006 she was awarded Oman\u2019s Sultan Qaboos Prize for Cultural Innovation in the category of literature.
\nWorks include: \u2018Maryam of the Stories\u2019, \u2018World\u2019<\/p>\n
Amit Chaudhuri<\/b>
\nHome country: India
\nLanguage: English
\nIn brief: One of India\u2019s most celebrated modern writers, Amit has published five novels and many short stories, essays, poems and works of literary criticism. He served on the judging panels for the 2001 IMPAC<\/span> Dublin International Literary Prize and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize, and has lectured extensively at universities across the UK and US. He has received numerous awards for his fiction, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction and India\u2019s prestigious Sahitya Akademi prize. Amit currently serves as Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
\nWorks include: \u2018A New World\u2019, \u2018The Immortals\u2019<\/p>\nHamdy El-Gazzar<\/b>
\nHome country: Egypt
\nLanguage: Arabic
\nIn brief: A relative newcomer to the Arabic literary scene, Hamdy\u2019s debut novel made a splash when it captured the 2006 Sawiris Foundation Prize in Egyptian Literature. He is also the author of several plays and short stories, as well as a number of screenplays for Egyptian television\u2019s Culture Channel.
\nWorks include: \u2018Black Magic\u2019<\/p>\n
Mathias Enard<\/b>
\nHome country: France
\nLanguage: French
\nIn brief: A native French speaker, Mathias spent many years studying Arabic and Persian in the Middle East, and his passion for the region is apparent in many of his works. His latest novel, which has generated significant international buzz for being composed of a single sentence more than 500 pages long, was awarded the Prix D\u00e9cembre and the Prix du Livre Inter in 2009. He currently teaches Arabic at the University of Barcelona.
\nWorks include: \u2018The Perfection of the Shot\u2019, \u2018Zone\u2019<\/p>\n
Qaisra Shahraz<\/b>
\nHome country: Pakistan
\nLanguage: English
\nIn brief: Born in Pakistan and raised in the UK, Qaisra has been widely acclaimed by critics for producing novels, short stories and television screenplays that offer particularly human characterizations of life in her native country and of the experiences of Pakistani immigrants in the West. She is also an educator and creative writing instructor, and has led workshops and seminars on these subjects abroad and in the UK. Her debut novel received a Golden Jubilee Award , and she has won several Pakistan Television Awards for her screenwriting.
\nWorks include: \u2018The Holy Woman\u2019, \u2018Typhoon\u2019<\/p>\n
Sahar Khalifeh<\/b>
\nHome country: Palestine
\nLanguage: Arabic
\nIn brief: This widely translated novelist is considered by many to be the most important living Palestinian writer, and her books are taught in university courses around the world. A prominent women\u2019s rights activist, Sahar is also the founder of the Women\u2019s Affairs Center in Nablus, with branches in Gaza City and Amman. She has taught at the University of Iowa in the United States and at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah.
\nWorks include: \u2018Wild Thorns\u2019, \u2018The Image, the Icon and the Covenant\u2019<\/p>\n
Tarun Tejpal<\/b>
\nHome country: India
\nLanguage: English
\nIn brief: Five years ago Tarun was best known as the founder of \u2018Tehelka\u2019, an Indian media outlet with a reputation for groundbreaking public interest journalism. Now with two critically acclaimed novels under his belt, the first of which won the Prix Millepages in France and was lauded by Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul as \u201ca new and brilliantly original novel from India,\u201d he has earned himself a place as one of India\u2019s leading contemporary authors.
\nWorks include: \u2018The Alchemy of Desire\u2019, \u2018The Story of My Assassins\u2019<\/p>\n\n
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