Ahdaf Soueif
Egypt
Novelist and Writer
Literature
Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling “The Map of Love” (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999 and translated into more than 30 languages), Cairo: a City Transformed, her account of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and Mezzaterra (2004). She is also a political and cultural commentator. Her articles for the Guardian are published in the European and American press. From 2011 to 2015, she wrote a weekly column for the Egyptian national daily, al-Shorouk. In 2007, Soueif founded the Palestine Festival of Literature – PalFest, which takes place in the cities of occupied Palestine and Gaza. Out of that, she co-edited This is Not A Border: Reportage and Reflections from the Palestine Festival of Literature (2017).
Soueif was the first recipient of the Mahmoud Darwish Award in Palestine (2010), and received the European Cultural Foundation’s 2019 Princess Margriet Award.

Ahdaf Soueif
Egypt
Novelist and Writer
Literature
Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling “The Map of Love” (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999 and translated into more than 30 languages), Cairo: a City Transformed, her account of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and Mezzaterra (2004). She is also a political and cultural commentator. Her articles for the Guardian are published in the European and American press. From 2011 to 2015, she wrote a weekly column for the Egyptian national daily, al-Shorouk. In 2007, Soueif founded the Palestine Festival of Literature – PalFest, which takes place in the cities of occupied Palestine and Gaza. Out of that, she co-edited This is Not A Border: Reportage and Reflections from the Palestine Festival of Literature (2017).
Soueif was the first recipient of the Mahmoud Darwish Award in Palestine (2010), and received the European Cultural Foundation’s 2019 Princess Margriet Award.

Juror

Tajwaal
2018