End of the Sahara

Saïd Khatibi was born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both.  Sarajevo Firewood, his third novel, was shortlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. His other novels are The Book of Errors which was published in 2013, and Forty Years Waiting for Isabelle which won the 2017 Katara Award for Arabic Novel. The End of the Sahara won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Young Author category in 2023. He currently lives in Slovenia.

"Khatibi’s masterful retelling of the events assembled between its pages creates a perfect mosaic rendered with the insight of a social novelist whose feet are planted in the heart of reality and whose symbols take flight with the imagination." BANIPAL"The End of the Sahara exhibits imaginative characteristics, stylistic originality, and narrative proficiency in the genre of detective literature. . . [and] is distinguished by its eloquence and seamless flow.” Sheikh Zayed Book Award--Young Author Prize in 2023