Anubis: A Desert Novel

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IBRAHIM AL-KONI WAS BORN in Libya in 1948. A Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. After working for the Libyan newspapers Fazzan and al-Thawra, he studied comparative literature at the Gorky Institute in Moscow, before working in Moscow as a journalist. In Warsaw he edited a Polish-language periodical al-Sadaqa, which published translations of short stories from Arabic, including some of his own.1 Since 1993 he has lived in Switzerland. His novel The Bleeding of the Stone was published in the United States in 2002, at least six of his titles have appeared in French, and at least eight are available in German translation. Representative works by al-Koni are available in thirty-five languages, including Japanese. His published works in Arabic, which are primarily literary, already number into the fifties, with publication dates ranging from 1974, for a collection of short stories, to the present.

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