The Arab World Literature Prize has unveiled the longlist of 16 novels in the running for the 2024 prize, which will award $50,000 to the final winner next April.
The shortlist was chosen from 133 books published in Arabic between July 2022 and June 2023 by a jury chaired by Syrian writer Nabil Suleiman. He is joined by Palestinian author, researcher and academic Sonia Nimr, Czech academic František Ondráš, Egyptian critic and journalist Mohamed Shoair and Sudanese writer and journalist Hammour Ziada.
- Mohammed Abdel Nabi, "Nearly Every Day", (Egypt)
- Ahmed Al Morsi, "Gambling on the Honor of Lady Mitsy" (Egypt)
- Badriya Albadri, « Foumbi » (Oman)
- Raja Alem, « Bahbel: Makkah Multiverse, 1945-2009 » (Saudi Arabia)
- Saleh Al Hamad, "Eye of the Kite", (Saudi Arabia)
- Sara Alsarraf, "I Heard Everything" (Iraq)
- Rima Bali, "Suleima's Ring", (Syria)
- Rashid Al Daif, "The Other Face of the Shadow" (Lebanon)
- Osama Al Eissa, "The Seventh Heaven of Jerusalem" (Palestine)
- Basim Khandaqji, "A Mask, the Color of the Sky" (Palestine)
- Dorra Al Fazi', "I Hide Passion" (Tunisia)
- Sufyan Rajab, "Reader of the Tanners' Alley", (Tunisia)
- Ahmed Menour, Storm Over the Islands (Algeria)
- Amin Zaoui, "The Idols", (Algeria)
- Eissa Nasiri, "The Mosaicist" (Morocco)
- Salha Obeid, "Spice Circle" (United Arab Emirates).