Jokha Alharthi
Jokha Alharthi, also spelt al-Harthi, is an Omani writer and academic. She is best known for her novel published in English under the title Celestial Bodies
Celestial Bodies, translated by Marilyn Booth, won the Booker International Prize in 2019. The judges heralded the book as ‘a richly imagined, engaging and poetic insight into a society in transition and into lives previously obscured’.
Celestial Bodies
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2019
- Translated by
- Marilyn Booth
- Published by
- Sandstone Press
Jokha Alharthi’s elegantly structured and taut novel tells of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves
