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Poet and Novelist Jalal Barjas “Why Do We Read Novels… Why Do We Write Them?” When he writes, paper becomes life, and the novel transforms into a mirror of the soul. Jalal Barjas, a Jordanian novelist, short story writer, and poet, has carried the word from Amman to the world, with his prose rising to touch major literary awards. He won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Arabic Booker) for The Bookseller’s Notebooks, as well as the Katara Prize, the Rukhs Bin Zayed Al-Uzaizi Prize, and the Rifqa Dudin Creativity Award. His novels have been translated into English, Hindi, Persian, French, and Italian, reaching global award lists from Banipal in the UK to the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the UAE. The Bookseller’s Notebooks was selected among the fifty most important novels of the last quarter of the 21st century and the early 22nd, while The Duduk’s Lament was adopted as a curriculum text for the International Baccalaureate in France. Our eleventh speaker: Poet and Novelist Jalal Barjas
“Why Do We Read Novels… Why Do We Write Them?”

When he writes, paper becomes life, and the novel transforms into a mirror of the soul.

Jalal Barjas, a Jordanian novelist, short story writer, and poet, has carried the word from Amman to the world, with his prose rising to touch major literary awards. He won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Arabic Booker) for The Bookseller’s Notebooks, as well as the Katara Prize, the Rukhs Bin Zayed Al-Uzaizi Prize, and the Rifqa Dudin Creativity Award. His novels have been translated into English, Hindi, Persian, French, and Italian, reaching global award lists from Banipal in the UK to the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the UAE.

The Bookseller’s Notebooks was selected among the fifty most important novels of the last quarter of the 21st century and the early 22nd, while The Duduk’s Lament was adopted as a curriculum text for the International Baccalaureate in France. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx