Ibrahim Nasrallah

was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1954, and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp. He worked in journalism from 1978 to 1996.

From 1996 to 2002 he was director of cultural affairs at the Darat al-Funoun–Khalid Shoman Foundation in Amman. He is currently vice-president there.

His first novel Prairies of Fever (1985) was published in English translation in 1993 (Interlink, USA). He has pubiished many novels and thirteen collections of poetry. He is translated into several languages with one novel in English.

He has won prizes for his work, including the Owais award for poetry 1997. He won the ’Arrar prize (1991 and the Tayseer Sbool Prize for a novel (1994).

His latest novel, [Time of White Horses] is short-listed for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2008-2009.