The BA Cultural Outreach Sector is organizing a meeting titled “Awards and Creatives” with Omani writer and winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Arabic Booker Prize) Zahran Alqasmi, on Thursday, 24 August 2023, at 7:00 pm, in the BACC Delegates Hall. The meeting will be moderated by writer Hend Gaafar.
Zahran Alqasmi is an Omani poet and novelist, born in Dima Wattayeen in the Sultanate of Oman in 1974. He has published four novels: Mountain of the Horseradish Tree (2013), The Sniper (2014), Hunger for Honey (2017), and Exile of the Water Diviner (2021), as well as ten poetry collections and Biography of the Stone 1 (short story collection, 2009) and Biography of the Stone 2 (non-fiction, 2011).