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Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 for her novel Minor Detail

She was born in Palestine in 1974. Shibli has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. Her first two novels appeared in English as Touch, translated by Paula Haydar, and We Are All Equally Far from Love, translated by Paul Starkey. Shibli was awarded the Young Writer’s Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004. Her latest novel, Minor Detail, was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020, and in 2021 it was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Shibli is also engaged in academic research and teaching at different universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University, Palestine (2012-2018).

 

What the judges said

‘The first part of this devastatingly powerful book gives a laconic account of a shocking crime. In the second, decades later, a woman sets out to comprehend that crime. Set in disputed ground, this austerely beautiful novel focuses on one incident in the Palestine/Israeli conflict and casts light on ethnic conflicts, and ethnic cleansing, everywhere.’

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

2021 International Booker Prize Chair of judges, Lucy Hughes-Hallett

…this austerely beautiful novel focuses on one incident in the Palestine/Israeli conflict and casts light on ethnic conflicts, and ethnic cleansing, everywhere.

The 2021 International Booker Prize judges

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All nominated books

Minor Detail
Adania Shibli's novel 'Minor Detail' is a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, which cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession