Arabic Fiction

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: SANJANA VARGHESE The Night Mail takes $50,000 prize and secures funding for an English translation  ‘These books are emotionally difficult to write’ … Hoda Barakat. Photograph: Kheridine Mabrouk Lebanese author Hoda Barakat has won the $50,000 (£39,000) International prize for Arabic fiction (Ipaf) for her novel The Night Mail, which tells the stories … Continued