Warraq Notebooks, Paperback Book, By: Jalal Barjas

The novel “Notebooks of Warraq” by the Jordanian writer Jalal Barjas, published by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021 in its 14th session, as announced today noon, Tuesday, by the head of the award jury this year, poet Shawqi Bzeih, via a video broadcast “remotely”. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction recently announced that the novel (The Notebooks of Warraq) by the writer Jalal Barjas won the Booker Prize 2021 in its fourteenth session. It tells about a schizophrenic reader who commits multiple crimes. Rather, in the Arab region in general, according to which the writer received a cash prize of 50 thousand US dollars, in addition to financing the translation of his novel into English.