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Jalal Barjas



Jordanian writer Jalal Barjas wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction

  • Novel “Notebooks of the Bookseller” is set in Jordan and Moscow between 1947 and 2019
  • Judges praise "painful, fragmented tale of marginalized people"
By SARAH GLUBB ·

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