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• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

  Alameddine, Rabih,

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  Fiction Winner: In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and "the neighborhood homosexual," Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  Non-Fiction Winner: On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Green and Trembling

  Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela, 1968-

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  Translated Literature Winner: Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he's become Antonio and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Teacher of Nomad Land

  a World War II Story

  Nayeri, Daniel,

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  Young People's Literature Winner: 1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one side, Soviet forces on another. Soldiers fill the teahouses of Isfahan. Nazi spies roam the alleyways.…Read moreRead more of this annotation