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Taleb Alrefai
Taleb Alrefai is a well-known Kuwaiti author. Shadow of the Sun (Dhil al-Shams), was his first novel, published in 2000, with a second edition in 2012. centred on the suffering of ...visualizza altroTaleb Alrefai is a well-known Kuwaiti author. Shadow of the Sun (Dhil al-Shams), was his first novel, published in 2000, with a second edition in 2012. centred on the suffering of Egyptian and other foreign migrant workers in Kuwait. In 2002, he was awarded the State Prize for Letters for his novel Ra’ihat al-Bahr (Scent of the Sea). His novel Fi al-Huna (Here and There) was longlisted for the 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and has a French edition. His novel Al-Najdi (2017, The Mariner) based on the life of a famous Kuwaiti sea captain, has editions in English (Banipal Books, 2020, with an audio edition (Spiracle, 2022), French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Turkish.visualizza meno