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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Rabai al-Madhoun (born in al-Majdal, Ashkelon, southern Palestine in 1945 AD) is a Palestinian writer, novelist and journalist. He is the first Palestinian to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction known as the Arabic Booker Prize (in its ninth session, in 2016).
his life
Al-Madhoun was born in Al-Majdal, near the city of Ashkelon in southern Palestine in 1945, and his family immigrated after the Nakba to a refugee camp in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, where Al-Madhoun grew up.
Al-Madhoun received his education at Alexandria University in Egypt, but he was expelled from it in 1970 - before graduating - because of his political activity. He worked in the press since 1973, and moved between a large number of Arab and foreign countries, until he settled in London and held British citizenship. Before his retirement in 2018, he worked for Al-Sharq Awasat newspaper in London. He currently resides in Spain.
of his works
Abla Khan Yunis (Short collection, 1977)
The Taste of Separation - Three Palestinian Generations in Memory (novel / biography, 2001) The Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, Beirut, 2nd edition in 2011)
The Lady from Tel Aviv (Novel, 2009) 8 editions, translated into English by the American translator and academic Eliot Kola.
Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba (Novel, 2015), 8 editions.
Super gossip 2018
Achievements and Awards
Booker Prize
In 2016, Al-Madhoun became the first Palestinian novelist to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Booker), for his novel “Fate: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba.” He had reached the short list for the same award in 2010 with his novel “The Lady from Tel Aviv.”
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