Muscat: Jokha Alharthi has become the first Arabic author to win the Man Booker International Prize for her book.
"Celestial Bodies", recounts the story of three sisters and of a desert country confronting its slave-owning past and a complex modern world.
The prize laureate will share the 50,000 pound ($64,000) award with her UK-based translator, Marilyn Booth.
The prolific writer boasts a long list of works which includes a novel Narinjah (Bitter Orange), 2016, children’s book The Cloud Wishes, 2015, a collection of poems Diwan Ahmed b. Abdullah, gathered and edited by Jokha Alharthi, 2014.
She is also the writer of a study, Mulahaqat al-shumus: manhaj al-talif al-adabi fi Kharidat al-qasr (Chasing The Suns: The Literary Methodology In The Book Of “Kharidat al-Qasr”) 2010.
Alharthi is the recipient of Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature for the novel “Narinjah”, 2016.
She was shortlisted for the Shaikh Zayed Award for her work Sayyidat al-Qamar in December 2011.
He achievements also include the best Omani novel, Sayyidat al-Qamar, 2010, the best Omani children's book ush al-asafir, 2010, and the second place in Al Shariqiyah award for the first collection of short stories, 2001, according to Oman Observer.
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