MUSCAT: Booker Prize award winner and Omani author Jokha Al Harthi won the prestigious 2021 Arab Literature Prize in France for her book Celestial Bodies.
The prize, created in 2013 by the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the Arab World Institute, is now in its ninth year. Celestial Bodies translated from Arabic to French titled ‘Les Corps Célestes’ by Khaled Osman
This is the second international award for Jokha after she won the Man Booker Prize in 2019.
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