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In Catalogue of a Private Life, Bin Shatwan writes complex characters into stories that create a unique space to explore the rich tapestry of human behaviour. -Buzz Magazine Book of the month selection. Eric Forbes's Book Addict's Guide to Good Books The stories are funny, satirical, absurd, serious and surrealistic, but they make their point both about the repression in a strict Muslim society but, more particularly, about the horrors of the political situation in Libya. -The Modern Novel

'In Catalogue of a Private Life, Bin Shatwan writes complex characters into stories that create a unique space to explore the rich tapestry of human behaviour.' Buzz Magazine Book of the month selection. Eric Forbes's Book Addict's Guide to Good Books 'The stories are funny, satirical, absurd, serious and surrealistic, but they make their point both about the repression in a strict Muslim society but, more particularly, about the horrors of the political situation in Libya.' The Modern Novel

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Najwa Bin Shatwan is a Libyan academic and novelist, the first Libyan to ever be shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (in 2017). She has written three novels: Waber Al Ahssina (The Horses' Hair), Madmum Burtuqali (Orange Content), and Zareeb Al-Abeed (The Slave Yards), in addition to several collections of short stories and plays. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by Hay Festival's Beirut 39 project (2009). In 2018, she was chosen from hundreds of Arab writers for the 2018 Banipal Writing Fellowship Residency in Durham.

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