Notebooks of the Bookseller.
The novel, published by The Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing, was named this year’s winner of the prize during an online ceremony on Tuesday.
Besides receiving a monetary prize of $50,000, Barjas will also be given funding towards securing an English translation of his novel.
«أقسى أشكال الوجع أن يكتشف الواحد منا أن حياته تشكلت على نحو لم تكن لنا يد فيه، كنت ترابا نقياً من الحصى فعجنه والدي بماء الخوف، خوف لا أدري للآن كيف تلبسه حيال كل شيء.» دفاتر الورّاق، جلال برجس pic.twitter.com/NX8gE34I6d Habiba Alaya (@Booklovers tn) May 10, 2021
Notebooks of the Bookseller is set in Jordan and Moscow between 1947 and 2019. It tells the story of Ibrahim, a bookseller and voracious reader, who loses his shop and finds himself homeless and diagnosed with schizophrenia. He begins to