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Ali al-Muqri

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Ali al-Muqri (Arabic: علي المقري) (born in Taiz) is a Yemeni novelist and writer.  Two of his novels - Black Taste, Black Odour and The Handsome Jew - have been long-listed for the Arab Booker Prize. He also received a special commendation from the jury of the 2015 French Prize for Arabic Literature, for his novel Ḥurma (Femme interdite), translated into French by Khaled Osman and Ola Mehanna.
Al-Muqri's work has been published in Banipal magazine, The New York Times, and in French newspaper La ...

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