Sahar Khalifeh

Sahar Khalifeh was born in Nablus in 1941 and is considered one of the most prominent Palestinian writers of our time. She is the author of eleven novels, all of which deal with the situation of the Palestinians under occupation, including Wild Thorns (1976), Sunflower (1980), We Are No More Your Slaves (1987), The Inheritance (1996) and Of Noble Origins (2009). She has won a number of Arab and international prizes, including the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature (2006) in Egypt, the Mohamed Zafzaf Prize (2013) in Morocco, the Alberto Moravia Award for International Fiction (1996), and was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2020). (Preferred pronoun: she/her)