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Khandaqji’s book was chosen from 133 works submitted to the competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, jailed 20 years ago in Israel, won a prestigious prize for Arabic fiction on Sunday for his novel “A Mask, the Colour of the Sky”.<\/p>\n
The award of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced at a ceremony in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n
The prize was accepted on Khandaqji’s behalf by Rana Idriss, owner of Dar al-Adab, the book’s Lebanon-based publisher.<\/p>\n
Khandaqji was born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus in 1983, and wrote short stories until his arrest in 2004 at the age of 21.<\/p>\n
He was convicted and jailed on charges relating to a deadly bombing in Tel Aviv, and completed his university education from inside jail via the internet.<\/p>\n
The mask in the novel’s title refers to the blue identity card that Nur, an archaeologist living in a refugee camp in Ramallah, finds in the pocket of an old coat belonging to an Israeli.<\/p>\n
Khandaqji’s book was chosen from 133 works submitted to the competition.<\/p>\n
Nabil Suleiman, who chaired the jury, said the novel “dissects a complex, bitter reality of family fragmentation, displacement, genocide, and racism”.<\/p>\n
Since being jailed Khandaqji has written poetry collections including “Rituals of the First Time” and “The Breath of a Nocturnal Poem”.<\/p>\n
He has also written three earlier novels.<\/p>\n
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