Awards

• Winner of International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011
• Winner of International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011.

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'A surreal and meditative take on a murder mystery' Deborah Smith, Guardian summer reads 'Masterly crafted and perfectly paced... an intense, near-spiritual experience' Chicago Review of Books 'Raja's Mecca is a place of sincerity and deception, wealth and poverty, architectural beauty and ugliness, whispers of the past and the assault of the future' Jury of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 'A story the likes of which you have never read before' Elle France 'Alem blends surrealism and mystery in this challenging novel' Publishers Weekly 'Raja Alem's reputation in contemporary Arabic literature [is] similar to Nabokov's in ours: masterful, erudite, witty, and somewhat dangerous' BOMB

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Raja Alem was born in Mecca and now lives in Paris. She has received many awards in both the Arab world and Europe for her novels and other writing. In 2011, she became the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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