Abdelouahab Aissaoui

Abdelouahab Aissaoui (born 1985) is an Algerian writer. He was born in Djelfa and studied engineering at Zayan Ashour University. He has written a series of critically acclaimed novels, the most recent of which, The Spartan Court, won the IPAF Prize, recognized as the Arab world's most important fiction prize.[1][2]

Works
  • Jacob's Cinema (2012, winner of President of the Republic Prize)
  • Mountain of Death (2015, winner of the Assia Djebar Prize)
  • Circles and Doors (2017, winner of the 2017 Kuwaiti Suad al-Sabah Novel Prize)
  • Testament of the Deeds of the Forgotten Ones (Katara Prize for Arabic Novel)
  • The Spartan Court (2018, winner of the Arabic Booker Prize)

References
  1. "Abdelouahab Aissaoui | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". www.arabicfiction.org.
  2. "Abdelouahab Aissaoui has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction". April 14, 2020.


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