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. Provided by Wikipedia