‘The Baghdad Clock’ Author Shahad Al Rawi on her First Award-Winning Novel: ‘Those were the best Days of my Life’
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: RAYA AL JADIR Not many had been familiar with Iraqi novelist Shahad Al Rawi’s name prior to her nomination for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for her debut novel, The Baghdad Clock. The book was the runner up for that award, and won the First Book Award at the Edinburgh … Continued