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Sad Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and journalist born in 1984 in Bou Sada, Algeria. He currently lives in Slovenia. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. His novel Sarajevo Firewood, was shortlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. His other novels are The Book of Errors which was published in 2013, and Forty Years Waiting for Isabelle which won the 2017 Katara Award for Arabic Novels. Alexander Elinson teaches Arab literature at Hunter College in NY. He has translated two novels by Youssef Fadel: A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me and A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
""Khatibi’s masterful retelling of the events assembled between its pages creates a perfect mosaic rendered with the insight of a social novelist whose feet are planted in the heart of reality and whose symbols take flight with the imagination."" BANIPAL ""The End of the Sahara exhibits imaginative characteristics, stylistic originality, and narrative proficiency in the genre of detective literature. . . [and] is distinguished by its eloquence and seamless flow.” Sheikh Zayed Book Award--Young Author Prize in 2023
