Raba'i al-Madhoun

Born in al-Majdal, Palestine, in 1945, Raba’i al-Madhoun now lives and works in London as a writer and an editor at the leading Arabic daily, Asharq Al-Awsat. The Lady from Tel Aviv (Telegram) was shortlisted for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and won the English PEN Writers in Translation award in the same year. His other works include The Idiot of Khan Younis, The Taste of Separation and Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba, for which he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016.