Mansoura Ez-Eldin
Egypt
Novelist and Managing Editor of Akhbar al-Adab Newspaper
Literature
Mansoura Ez-Eldin is an Egyptian award-winning author. Her book “Walks in Shanghai” received the Ibn Battuta Prize for travel literature in 2021 and her novel “Emerald Mountain” received the award of the best Arabic novel in 2014 from the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). The Serbian edition of her novel “Shadow Specters” was shortlisted for the Miloš Đurić Prize for literary translation issued by the Serbian Association of Literary Translators, and the French edition of her novel “The Orchards of Basra” was shortlisted for Le Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2023. Her short story collection “A Haven for the Absence” was shortlisted for the prestigious Al-Multaqa Prize for Arabic Short Story 2018 and the Sheikh Zayed Award for Literature 2020. In 2009, she was selected for the Beirut39, as one of the 39 best Arab authors under 40.

Mansoura Ez-Eldin
Egypt
Novelist and Managing Editor of Akhbar al-Adab Newspaper
Literature
Mansoura Ez-Eldin is an Egyptian award-winning author. Her book “Walks in Shanghai” received the Ibn Battuta Prize for travel literature in 2021 and her novel “Emerald Mountain” received the award of the best Arabic novel in 2014 from the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). The Serbian edition of her novel “Shadow Specters” was shortlisted for the Miloš Đurić Prize for literary translation issued by the Serbian Association of Literary Translators, and the French edition of her novel “The Orchards of Basra” was shortlisted for Le Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2023. Her short story collection “A Haven for the Absence” was shortlisted for the prestigious Al-Multaqa Prize for Arabic Short Story 2018 and the Sheikh Zayed Award for Literature 2020. In 2009, she was selected for the Beirut39, as one of the 39 best Arab authors under 40.

Juror

Production Awards
Round 01
2017