The International Prize for Arabic Fiction has announced six selected authors vying for a prize of $ 50,000 when the winner is revealed on May 25 and they are:
Abdulatif Ould Abdullah - ‘The Eye of Hammurabi’

Jalal Bargas - ‘Notebooks of the Bookshop Keeper’

Amira Ghenim- ‘The Calamity of the Nobility’

Dunya Mikhail- ‘The Bird Tattoo'

Abdelmajid Sebbata - ‘File 42’

Habib Selmi- ‘Longing for the Woman Next Door’
