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Tunisia 6
Ziad Abd el-Qadir
A Grainless Mill
arabic literature - contemplative - contemporary - writing

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Iraq 7
Ali Badr
The Enigmatic Crime of the Signals Private
confession - iran - murder - soldiers - war

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Israel 5
Hisham Naffa
The Shoe
atmospheric - contemplative - introspective - loneliness - melancholy

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Spain 4
Alejandro Morellón
In Praise of the Hurricane
absurd - allegory - atmospheric - contemplative - psychological - suburbia - violence

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Iraq 3
Adham Adel
Extinction
allegory - arabic literature - introspective - murder - violence

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UK 10
Brian Stableford
Mortimer Gray’s History of Death
alternative history - contemplative - death - history - philosophy - sci-fi - speculative

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Colombia 12
Giuseppe Caputo
Like Hunger, Like Love
absurd - homosexuality - mother and son - psychological - relationships - surreal

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Palestine 5
Naji Daher
Nightly Lament
arabic literature - death - marriage - relationships - surreal - violence

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Argentina 7
Martín Felipe Castagnet
Inside Outdoors
allegory - contemplative - death - sci-fi - surreal - technology

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USA 7
female authors - gender - love - relationships - witty

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Tunisia 3
Kamal Riahi
Its Name is ‘Bird’
arabic literature - childhood - contemplative - introspective - philosophy

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Sudan 2
absurd - arabic literature - political - surreal

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