Omar Abulqasim Alkikli
Omar Abulqasim Alkikli is a Libyan short story writer and translator, born in 1953. He published his first literary work in the early 1970s. He spent ten years as a political prisoner, released in 1988 with other jailed Libyan writers. He has three collections of short stories, with one Sena’a Mahilia (Local Produce) translated into French, and a collection of world short stories which he translated.
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Banipal No 40 – Libyan Fiction
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