“No Arab writer ever makes that kind of money,” he says. Alrefai’s wife Shoroq also urges him to take payment. “What about our financial problems? My love, please forget about those wretched communist principles you believe in this one time.”
Finalists for 2018 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
Winning authors receive a 10,000 euro prize.
Kuwaiti Censorship: The Worst in the World?
Arguments and counter-arguments have been ongoing in Kuwait since the country's Information Ministry banned "25" (or 35? or at least 100? more than 200?) titles from this year's book fair, which started this past Wednesday.
