{"id":13946,"date":"2019-04-24T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T10:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/hoda-barakats-night-mail-wins-2019-international-prize-for-arabic-fiction\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T10:44:33","slug":"hoda-barakats-night-mail-wins-2019-international-prize-for-arabic-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/hoda-barakats-night-mail-wins-2019-international-prize-for-arabic-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoda Barakat&#8217;s &#8216;Night Mail&#8217; wins 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018Bareed Al Layl\u2019 (The Night Mail) by Paris-based Lebanese author Hoda was selected from among 6 shortlisted titles to the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for 2019. The novel, published by Dar al-Adab, was named as this year\u2019s winner at a gala ceremony held in Abu Dhabi on the eve of the opening of the\u00a0Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The monetary value of the prize is USD $60,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The shortlist, which was announced February 5, 2019, had included \u2018Bareed Al Layl\u2019 (The Night Mail) by Lebanese author Hoda Barakat, \u2018Shams Bayda\u2019 Barida\u2019 (Cold White Sun) by Jordanian author Kafa Al-Zou\u2019bi, \u2018Sayf Ma\u2019a Al Adou\u2019 (Summer with the Enemy) by Syrian author Shahla Ujayli, \u2018Al Wasaya\u2019 (The Commandments) by Egyptian author Adel Esmat, \u2018Al Nabeetha\u2019 (The Outcast) by Iraqi author\u00a0 Inaam Kachachi and \u2018Bi Ay Thanbin Rahalat\u2019 (What Sin Caused Her to Die) by Moroccan author Mohammed Al Maazuz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The \u2018Night Mail\u2019 tells the stories of those who have lost their homelands to war and who become homeless and lost in the world. It is worth mentioning that the jury of the International Prize of Arabic Fiction had shortlisted 6 novels from a longlist of 16 titles that were published in Arabic during the period from June 2017 and July 2019. Each shortlisted author will receive a monetary prize worth USD $10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Commenting on her win, Barakat said: \u201cI am very happy to be awarded this prize for a novel that I wrote in Arabic and the mere fact that I won an award because I write in my mother tongue is much more important to me than any prize or any recognition in the world\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Barakat, who was born in Beirut in 1952, works in teaching and journalism and currently lives in France. She has authored has published six novels, two plays, a book of short stories and a book of memoirs as well as co-authored several books in French. Her works have been translated into several languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is worth mentioning that Hoda Barakat had won the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award in the \u2018Short Stories, Novel and Drama\u201d category for the 15<sup>th<\/sup> session (2016-2017).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Bareed Al Layl\u2019 (The Night Mail) by Paris-based Lebanese author Hoda was selected from among 6 shortlisted titles to the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for 2019. 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