Abdelouahab Aissaoui (born 1985) is an Algerian writer. He was born in Djelfa and studied engineering at Zayan Ashour University. He has written a series of critically acclaimed novels, the most recent of which The Spartan Court won the IPAF Prize, recognized as the Arab world's most important fiction prize.[1][2]
Works
- Jacob's Cinema (2012, winner of President of the Republic Prize)
- Mountain of Death (2015, winner of the Assia Djebar Prize)
- Circles and Doors (2017, winner of the 2017 Kuwaiti Suad al-Sabah Novel Prize)
- Testament of the Deeds of the Forgotten Ones (Katara Novel Prize)
- The Spartan Court (2018, winner of the Arabic Booker Prize)
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