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Abdelkader Benali
(b. Ighazzazen, Morocco, 1975) moved to the Netherlands when he was four. After living in Rotterdam and Leiden, he moved to Amsterdam where he lives now.
His spectacular debut in 1996 was the novel Bruiloft aan zee [translated into English as Wedding By The Sea, Weidenfeld & Nicolson]. This book became an international bestseller and was awarded numerous national and international awards (a.o. Le Prix du Meilleur Premier Roman Etranger in France).
His body of work has expanded to include stories, essays, journalism, drama, poetry as well as four more novels, of which De langverwachte [The Long Expected], 2002, won the Libris Prize for best novel of the year.
In the summer of 2006 he was an accidental witness of the war in Beirut, about which he wrote Berichten uit een belegerde stad [Messages From a Besieged Town]. He also published a novel Feldman and I that same year. In 2009 his novel De stem van mijn moeder [My Mother's Voice], was published, a novel in which he returns to the theme of his first book.
His latest novel, published in September 2019 is De Weekend Miljonair.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 35 - Writing in Dutch (2009)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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