Europa to Publish Arabic Fiction Prize Winner
Europa Editions will publish the winner of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, A Mask the Color of the Sky by Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji. Europa publisher Sandro Ferri acquired world English rights to the novel earlier this year from Rana Idriss at Dar al-Adab.
Khandaqji, who has been imprisoned in Israel since 2004 after he was convicted of participating in the planning of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, has published several poetry collections and novels from prison. According to a release, A Mask The Color of the Sky "tells the story of Nur, a Palestinian archeologist living the Ramallah refugee camp who, after finding a sky-blue Israeli ID, assumes a new identity, one that gives him access to an unimagined world of opportunities but also provokes a profound personal schism."
Europa has not yet announced a publication date.
