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Ahmed Saadawi

An internationally acclaimed Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. Saadawi achieved global literary stardom after winning the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2014 for his landmark masterpiece Frankenstein in Baghdad, which was subsequently shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2018) and won France’s Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (2019). Translated into over thirty languages, he is also the author of celebrated works including The Beautiful Country, Chalk Door, The Cellar, and The Thirteenth Month. Renowned for his virtuosic fusion of surreal allegory, dark Kafkaesque satire, and acute sociopolitical realism, Saadawi is widely recognized as one of the most inventive and influential voices in contemporary world fiction.

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