Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian writer known for novels chronicling the country’s politics, society, and culture, with plotlines that have a habit of…

One of Iceland’s best-known writers, Andri Snær Magnason, is one of the few who can claim to have won the country’s main literary prize in all three…

Jenny Erpenbeck won the International Booker Prize this year for her novel Kairos. The story recounts a love affair that descends into decay and…

The acclaimed Dutch author Jaap Robben was nominated for the international Booker Prize for Summer Brother and its depiction of how innocence is lost…

Salar Abdoh has chronicled Middle Eastern wars in books that have outlined the realities of the conflict that has gripped the region. The Tehran-born…

In the world of literature, accolades do not come much bigger than the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Past winners from the United States include John…

Soprano Sawsan Al-Bahiti’s battle to bring opera to Saudi Arabia is ongoing but going well. While Europe has been sold on the genre she loves since…

Istanbul-born writer Defne Suman evokes the city and its changes in her novel The Circle and sets The Silence of Scheherazade in the Ottoman Empire…

Turkish novelist Burhan Sönmez has told Al Majalla that he is writing his latest book in Kurdish, his mother tongue.His published novels include The…

The award-winning Brazilian novelist Adriana Lisboa has written seven well-received novels alongside short stories, essays, poetry, and books for…