Authors / Ibrahim Nasrallah

Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Palestinian poet, novelist, painter, and photographer. He was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1954 to parents uprooted from their home in Palestine in 1948. Nasrallah has published 14 poetry collections, two books of film criticism, and 24 novels, 14 of which make up his epic Palestinian Tragicomedy series covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history. His many awards and honors include the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (The Arabic Booker), the 2022 Palestine Prize, and the 2023 Grand Prize for the Novel from the Turkish Authors’ Association. Nasrallah is the only two-time winner of the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels: in 2016 for his novel The Spirits of Kilimanjaro and in 2020 for his novel A Tank Under the Christmas Tree. His new chapbook, Palestinian, translated by Huda Fakhreddine, collects four poems written during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.