Winners were chosen from a shortlist of six authors, all of whom received $10,000. The honor is also supported by the Booker Prize Foundation, the charity behind the Man Booker Prize for English language fiction, and by the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.
He shared the prize with Saudi Arabia’s Raja Alem, whose “The Dove’s Necklace,” explores the “sordid underbelly” of life in the holy city of Mecca, according to organizers of the award which is funded by the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy.
Morocco’s Mohammed Achaari won for “The Arch and the Butterfly,” in which a father receives a letter from al Qaeda informing him that his son, who he believed was studying in Paris, died fighting Western forces in Afghanistan. LONDON (Reuters) - A Moroccan and a Saudi author shared the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction on Monday, the first time the annual award has been given jointly to two people in its four-year history.
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