خبز على طاولة الخال ميلادMohamed Alnaas

خبز على طاولة الخال ميلاد

International Prize · 2022 · Winner

Al-MutawassitJanuary 1, 2021Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
International Prize for Arabic Fiction	2022	Winner

About This Book

Set in Libya during political dislocation, follows a man whose masculinity and social identity are challenged when he loses his job and his wife becomes the breadwinner, a comic but incisive examination of gender roles and economic anxiety.

About the Author

Mohamed AlnaasLY

Mohamed Alnaas is a Libyan novelist born in 1985. He is one of the most important voices in contemporary Libyan literature, working in a context of immense political instability following the 2011 revolution and the subsequent civil conflict. His fiction engages with the ordinary lives of Libyan people against this background of upheaval. Read more →