Ali al-Muqri

Ali al-Muqri (Arabic: علي المقري) (born in Taiz) is a Yemeni novelist and writer. Two of his novels - Black Taste, Black Odour and The Handsome Jew - have been long-listed for the Arab Booker Prize. He also received a special commendation from the jury of the 2015 French Prize for Arabic Literature, for his novel Ḥurma (Femme interdite), translated into French by Khaled Osman and Ola Mehanna.

Al-Muqri's work has been published in Banipal magazine, The New York Times, and in French newspaper La Libération. In 1997, he became editor-in-chief of Al-Ḥikmah, the journal of the Yemeni Writers Association. He later served as the editor of literary journal Ǧaymān. In 2015, he fled to Paris after receiving death threats for writing sexually charged books.

List of publications

• Nāfiḏat lil-ğasad (A Window into the Body) (1987)
• TarmÄ«māt (Restorations) (1999; 2000)
• Yaḥdat fÄ« al-nasÄ«'ān (It Comes with Forgetfulness) (2003)
• al-Khamr wa-al-nabÄ«dh fÄ« al-islām (Wine and NabÄ«d in Islam) (2007)
• ṬaÊ¿m aswad…Rā’iḥah sawdā’ (Black Taste, Black Odour) (2008)
• Al-YahÅ«dÄ« al-ḤālÄ« (The Handsome Jew) (2009) - translated into French as Le Beau Juif (2011), and into Italian as Il Bell’Ebreo (2012)
• Ḥurmah (Woman) (2012) - translated into French as La Femme Interdite (2015), in English as Hurma (2015), and in Italian as Donna proibita (2021)
• BukhÅ«r 'AdanÄ« (Adeni Incense) (2014)

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External links

• An Interview with the Author
• Yemeni author defends minority rights in Yemen
• Ali al-Muqri