Lebanese author Hoda Barakat wins International prize for Arabic fiction
The Night Mail takes $50,000 prize and secures funding for an English translation
April 2017
International prize for Arabic fiction goes to Mohammed Hasan Alwan
A Small Death, the Saudi novelist’s historical novel about a Sufi mystic and adventurer, takes $50,000 honour for ‘striking artistry’
April 2016
Rabai al-Madhoun wins International prize for Arabic fiction
‘Arabic Booker’ goes to Destinies, a novel that ‘invents a new fictional form’ to depict Palestinian experience
May 2015
Tunisian novel wins ‘Arabic Booker’ in Abu Dhabi despite UAE ban
The Italian by Shukri al-Mabkhout takes International prize for Arabic fiction for story written in the aftermath of the Arab spring
February 2015
Repression, religion and exile feature on shortlist for International prize for Arabic fiction 2015
‘Arabic Booker’ shortlist sidesteps senior novelists for young and unknown writers from six countries
May 2014
Books blog
International prize for Arabic fiction turns to Iraq
Marcia Lynx Qualey: Ahmed Saadawi becomes first Iraqi to win the 'Arabic Booker' for Frankenstein in Baghdad
May 2012
Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan, translated by Jonathan Wright - review
Maya Jaggi explores a controversial novel that won the 'Arabic Booker'
January 2012
The Arab spring was foreshadowed in fiction
Khaled Hroub
International prize for Arabic fiction shortlist tells story of region's tensions
April 2011
Oil stories
The revolution in Arabic fiction prefigures the Arab spring
Peter Clark: Over the last decade, a new generation of Arabic novelists has been moving beyond the social realism of their predecessors to reach out to the world
March 2011
International Arabic fiction prize awarded to Alem and Achaari
Saudi Arabia's Raja Alem and Morocco's Mohammed Achaari share $50,000 prize for this year's 'Arabic Booker'
March 2010
Saudi Arabian writer Abdo Khal wins International prize for Arabic fiction
Abdo Khal's satirical Saudi Arabian novel Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles wins $60,000 'Arabic Booker'
March 2009
Books blog
Meeting the winner of the 'Arabic Booker'
Controversial novel of early Christianity wins the 'Arabic Booker'
December 2008
Banned author makes shortlist for Arabic 'Booker'
Ibrahim Nasrallah among the final six contending for international prize for Arabic fiction
April 2008
Cairo's greatest literary secret
Maya Jaggi
At 73, the novelist Bahaa Taher has weathered political purges and a lengthy exile from his native Egypt to carry off the Booker prize for Arabic fiction. The recognition is long overdue, says Maya Jaggi
March 2008
Existential crisis novel wins first 'Arabic Booker'
Sunset Oasis, Baha Taher's novel about a defeated man's journey into self-doubt, has won the first ever $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
August 2006
Naguib Mahfouz
Obituary: Nobel prize winning novelist who brought Arabic fiction to the western world.
June 2005
Mapping the divide
Ahdaf Soueif studied in Cairo and Lancaster before marrying the writer Ian Hamilton. She taught before starting to write fiction in English, and was translated into Arabic by her mother. Her pro-Palestinian views have attracted critics as well as admirers.
