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Tarek Eltayeb

An acclaimed Sudanese-Austrian novelist, poet, and academic born in Cairo and based in Vienna. Eltayeb is recognized as one of the most distinctive and widely translated cross-cultural voices in contemporary Arab and European literature. In 2008, he was awarded the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and appointed Austrian Ambassador for the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue. A recipient of the prestigious Elias Canetti Fellowship of the City of Vienna and the Grand Prize for Poetry at the Curtea de Argeș International Festival in Romania, his celebrated novels—including Cities Without Palms (runner-up for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize) and The Palm House—have been published in over a dozen global languages. Renowned for his sparse poetic prose, gentle existential irony, and poignant excavations of exile, identity, and memory, Eltayeb masterfully bridges Eastern and Western literary traditions.

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