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International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Awarded for	Best novel published in Arabic
Location	Arab world
First awarded	2008
Currently held by	Basem Khandakji
Website	http://www.arabicfiction.org

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) (Arabic: الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية), also known as "the Arabic Booker", is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.^[1]

Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature internationally through the translation and publication of winning and shortlisted novels in other major languages. In addition to the prize itself, IPAF supports other literary initiatives. In 2009, IPAF launched its inaugural nadwa (writers' workshop) for emerging writers of fiction in Arabic.

The prize is administered by the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and is currently funded by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT).^[2]

Each year, the winner of the prize receives US$50,000,^[2] and the six shortlisted authors receive US$10,000 each.

Full Rules of Entry are available to view here.

• Yasir Suleiman CBE, Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge, Chair of Trustees
• Evelyn Smith, Booker Prize Foundation, Company Secretary
• Isobel Abulhoul OBE, CEO, Emirates Literature Foundation
• Yassin Adnan, Moroccan journalist, broadcaster and writer
• Abdulla Majed Al Ali, executive director of the UAE national archive, columnist, formerly involved in a number of cultural initiatives in the UAE, including the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, the Kalima Translation Project, the Abu Dhabi Book Fair and Abu Dhabi libraries
• Nujoom Alghanem, poet, script writer and a multi-award-winning Emirati filmmaker
• Rasheed El-Enany, Professor Emeritus of the University of Exeter
• Omar Ghobash, Emirati author, businessman, and diplomat
• Rana Idriss, Director of publisher Dar al-Adab, Beirut
• Michel S. Moushabeck, Founder and President of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., writer, editor, and musician, USA
• Zaki Nusseibeh, UAE Minister of State
• Sherif-Joseph Rizk, Director of publishing house Dar al-Tanweer, Egypt
• Ahdaf Soueif, author and political and cultural commentator
• Jonathan Taylor, former chair of the Booker Prize Foundation
• Fleur Montanaro, Prize Administrator

= winner

Winner and nominees

Year	Status	Author	Title	Country	Publisher
2008	Winner	Bahaa Taher	Sunset Oasis	Egypt	na
	Shortlist	Jabbour Douaihy	June's Rain	Lebanon	Dar An Nahar, Beirut
		Elias Farkouh	The Land of Purgatory	Jordan	na
		Khaled Khalifa	In Praise of Hatred	Syria	Amisa, Damascus
		May Menassa	Walking in the Dust	Lebanon	na
		Mekkaoui Said	Swan Song	Egypt	na
2009	Winner	Youssef Ziedan	Azazeel	Egypt	na
	Shortlist	Inaam Kachachi	The American Granddaughter	Iraq	Dar Al-Jadid, Beirut
		Mohamed El-Bisatie	Hunger	Egypt	Dar Al-Adab, Beirut
		Habib Selmi	The Scents of Marie-Claire	Tunisia	Dar Al-Adab, Beirut
		Ibrahim Nasrallah	Time of White Horses	Palestine/Jordan	Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut and Algiers
		Fawaz Haddad	The Unfaithful Translator	Syria	na
	Longlist	Ezzedine Choukri Fishere	Intensive Care	Egypt	na
		Abdul-Kareem Jouaity	Platoon of Rain	Morocco	na
		Ali al-Muqri	Black Taste, Black Odour	Yemen	Dar Al-Saqi, Beirut
		Ali Bader	The Tobacco Guard	Iraq	na
		Ibrahim al-Koni	The Tumour	Libya	Arab Instt. for Publishing and Studies, Beirut
		Muhammed Abu Maatouk	The Bottle and the Genie	Syria	Al Kawkab, Beirut
		Renée Hayek	Prayer for the Family	Lebanon	na
		Bensalem Himmich	The Man from Andalucia	Morocco	Dar Al-Adab, Beirut
		Yahya Yakhlif	Ma' Al Sama'	Palestine	Dar al Shorouk, Amman
		Rabee Jaber	The Confessions	Lebanon	na
2010	Winner	Abdo Khal	Throwing Sparks	Saudi Arabia	na
	Shortlist	Rabai al-Madhoun	The Lady from Tel Aviv	Palestine	Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, Beirut
		Mansoura Ez Eldin	Beyond Paradise	Egypt	na
		Rabee Jaber	America	Lebanon	Arab Cultural Centre, Morocco and Lebanon
		Mohamed Mansi Qandil	A Cloudy Day on the West Side	Egypt	Dar El-Shorouk, Cairo
		Jamal Naji	When the Wolves Grow Old	Jordan	Ministry of Culture Publications, Amman
	Longlist	Omaima Abdullah Al-Khamis	The Leafy Tree	Saudi Arabia	Dar Al-Mada, Damascus
		Ali Bader	Kings of the Sands	Iraq	Kaleem Publishing, Abu Dhabi
		Muhsin Al-Ramli	Fingers of Dates	Iraq	Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut
		Abdullah Bin Bakheet	Street of Affections	Saudi Arabia	Dar Al-Saqi, Beirut
		Samir Kacimi	A Great Day to Die	Algeria	Al-Ikhtilaf, Algeria
		Alawiya Sobh	It's Called Love	Lebanon	na
		Hassan Daoud	180 Sunsets	Lebanon	Dar Al-Saqi, Beirut
		Rosa Yaseen Hasan	The Guards of the Air	Syria	Al-Kawkab, Beirut
		Mahmoud al-Rimawy	Who Will Cheer up the Lady?	Palestine	na
		Sahar Khalifeh	Origin and Branch	Palestine	na
2011	Winner	Mohammed Achaari	The Arch and the Butterfly	Morocco	na
		Raja'a Alem	The Dove's Necklace	Saudi Arabia	na
	Shortlist	Bensalem Himmich	My Tormentor	Morocco	na
		Miral al-Tahawy	Brooklyn Heights	Egypt	na
		Amir Tag Elsir	The Hunter of the Chrysalises	Sudan	Thaqafa I-al-Nashr - Cultural Publications
		Khaled al-Berry	An Oriental Dance	Egypt	na
	Longlist	Renée Hayek	A Short Life	Lebanon	na
		Fatin al-Murr	Common Sins	Lebanon	na
		Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresa	The Eye of the Sun	Syria	na
		Khairy Shalaby	Istasia	Egypt	na
		Maha Hassan	Umbilical Cord	Syria	na
		Maqbul Moussa al-Alawi	Turmoil in Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	na
		Razan Naim al-Maghrabi	Women of Wind	Libya	na
		Waciny Laredj	The Andalucian House	Algeria	na
		Fawaz Haddad	God's Soldiers	Syria	na
		Ali al-Muqri	The Handsome Jew	Yemen	na
2012	Winner	Rabee Jaber	The Druze of Belgrade	Lebanon	na
	Shortlist	Jabbour Douaihy	The Vagrant	Lebanon	na
		Ezzedine Choukri Fishere	Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge	Egypt	na
		Nasr Iraq	The Unemployed	Egypt	na
		Bachir Mufti	Toy of Fire	Algeria	na
		Habib Selmi	The Women of al-Basatin	Tunisia	na
	Longlist	Fadi Azzam	Sarmada	Syria	na
		Rashid al-Daif	Paving the Sea	Lebanon	na
		Sharbel Qatan	Suitcases of Memory	Lebanon	na
		Hawra al-Nadawi	Under the Copenhagen Sky	Iraq	na
		Youssef Ziedan	The Nabatean	Egypt	na
		Mohamed al-Refai	Nocturnal Creatures of Sadness	Egypt	na
		Ibrahim al-Zaarur	The Amazing Journey of Khair al-Din ibn Zard	Palestine	na
2013	Winner	Saud Alsanousi	The Bamboo Stalk	Kuwait	Arab Scientific Publishers
	Shortlist	Sinan Antoon	Ave Maria	Iraq	Al-Jamal
		Jana Elhassan	I, She and Other Women	Lebanon	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Mohammed Hassan Alwan	The Beaver	Saudi Arabia	Dar al-Saqi
		Ibrahim Issa	Our Master	Egypt	Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
		Hussein Al-Wad	His Excellency the Minister	Tunisia	Dar al-Janub
	Longlist	Ashraf El-Ashmawi	Toya	Egypt	Al-Dar al-Masriya al-Lubnaniya
		Hoda Barakat	The Kingdom of this Earth	Lebanon	Dar al-Adab
		Anwar Hamed	Jaffa Prepares Morning Coffee	Palestine	Arab Instt. for Research and Publishing
		Rabee Jaber	The Birds of the Holiday Inn	Lebanon	Dar al-Tanwir
		Elias Khoury	Sinalkul	Lebanon	Dar al-Adab
		Waciny Laredj	Lolita's Fingers	Algeria	Dar al-Adab
		Mohammed Abdel Nabi	The Return of the Sheikh	Egypt	Rawafid
		Ibrahim Nasrallah	Lanterns of the King of Galilee	Palestine/Jordan	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Muhsin al-Ramly	The President's Gardens	Iraq	Thaqafa
		Amin Zaoui	The Goatherd	Algeria	Al-Ikhtilef
2014	Winner	Ahmed Saadawi	Frankenstein in Baghdad	Iraq	Al-Jamal
	Shortlist	Youssef Fadel	A Rare Blue Bird that Flies with Me	Morocco	Dar al-Adab
		Inaam Kachachi	Tashari	Iraq	Dar al-Jadid
		Khaled Khalifa	No Knives in this City's Kitchens	Syria	Dar al-Ain
		Abdelrahim Lahbibi	The Journeys of 'Abdi	Morocco	Africa East
		Ahmed Mourad	The Blue Elephant	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouq
	Longlist	Ibrahim Abdelmeguid	Clouds Over Alexandria	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouq
		Badryah El-Bishr	Love Stories on al-Asha Street	Saudi Arabia	Dar al-Saqi
		Antoine Douaihy	The Bearer of the Purple Rose	Lebanon	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Amir Tag Elsir	366	Sudan	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Ismail Ghazali	The Season of Pike Fishing	Morocco	Dar al-Ain
		Ismail Fahd Ismail	The Phoenix and the Faithful Friend	Kuwait	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Ashraf al-Khamaisi	God's Land of Exile	Egypt	Al-Hadara
		Waciny Laredj	Ashes of the East: The Wolf who Grew Up in the Wilderness	Algeria	Al-Jamal
		Ibrahim Nasrallah	The Edge of the Abyss	Palestine/Jordan	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi	The Sad Night of Ali Baba	Iraq	Arab Institute for Research and Publishing
2015	Winner	Shukri Mabkhout	The Italian	Tunisia	na
	Shortlist	Atef Abu Saif	A Suspended Life	Palestine	na
		Jana ElHassan	Floor 99	Lebanon	na
		Lina Hawyan Elhassan	Diamonds and Women	Syria	na
		Hammour Ziada	The Longing of the Dervish	Sudan	na
		Ahmed el-Madini	Willow Alley	Morocco	na
	Longlist	Antoine Douaihy	Drowning in Lake Morez	Lebanon	na
		Ashraf al-Khamaisi	Sharp Turning	Egypt	na
		Mohammed Berrada	Far from Clamour, Close to Silence	Morocco	na
		Hadia Hussein	Riyam and Kafa	Iraq	na
		Abdel Wahab al-Hamadi	Don't Tell Your Nightmare!	Kuwait	na
		Hisham al-Khashin	Graphite	Egypt	na
		Habib Abdulrab Sarori	The Daughter of Suslov	Yemen	na
		Muna al-Sheemi	The Size of a Grape	Egypt	na
		Jabbour Douaihy	The American Neighbourhood	Lebanon	na
		Maha Hassan	Female Voices	Syria	na
2016	Winner	Rabai al-Madhoun	Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba	Palestine	na
	Shortlist	Mohamed Rabie	Mercury	Egypt	na
		Shahla Ujayli	A Sky Close to Our House	Syria	na
		Tareq Bakari	Numedia	Morocco	na
		Mahmoud Shukair	Praise for the Women of the Family	Palestine	na
		George Yaraq	The Guard of the Dead	Lebanon	na
	Longlist	Taleb Alrefai	Here	Kuwait	na
		Laila al-Atrash	Hymns of Temptation	Palestine	na
		Ibrahim Farghali	The Temple of Silken Fingers	Egypt	na
		Janan Jasim Halawi	People of the Palms	Iraq	na
		Mahmoud Hasan al-Jasim	Mariam's Journey	Syria	na
		Hazim Kamaledin	Desertified Waters	Iraq	na
		Abdennour Mezzine	Letters of the Storm	Morocco	na
		Ahmed Muhsin	Warsaw a Little While Ago	Lebanon	na
		Hamed al-Nazir	The Prophecy of Saqqa	Sudan	na
		Mohamed Mansi Qandil	The Black Brigade	Egypt	na
2017	Winner	Mohammed Hasan Alwan	A Small Death	Saudi Arabia	na
	Shortlist	Najwa Binshatwan	The Slave Pens	Libya	na
		Ismail Fahd Ismail	Al-Sabiliat	Kuwait	na
		Elias Khoury	Children of the Ghetto	Lebanon	na
		Mohammed Abdel Nabi	In the Spider's Room	Egypt	na
		Saad Mohammed Raheem	The Bookseller's Murder	Iraq	na
	Longlist	Yassin Adnan	Hot Maroc	Morocco	na
		Sultan Al Ameemi	One Room Is Not Enough	United Arab Emirates	na
		Amir Tag Elsir	The Witches' Resort	Sudan	na
		Sinan Antoon	Index	Iraq	na
		Ali Ghadeer	Swastika	Iraq	na
		Zuheir al-Hiti	Days of Dust	Iraq	na
		Abdul-Kareem Jouaity	The North Africans	Morocco	na
		Taissier Khalaf	The Slaughter of the Philosophers	Syria	na
		Youssef Rakha	Paolo	Egypt	na
		Renée Hayek	The Year of the Radio	Lebanon	na
2018	Winner	Ibrahim Nasrallah	The Second War of the Dog [3]	Palestine/Jordan	Arab Scientific Publishers
	Shortlist	Dima Wannous	The Frightened Ones	Syria	Dar al-Adab
		Aziz Mohammed	The Critical Case of K	Saudi Arabia	Dar Tanweer, Lebanon
		Shahad Al Rawi	The Baghdad Clock	Iraq	Dar al-Hikma, London
		Walid Shurafa	The Heir of the Tombstones	Palestine	Al Ahlia
		Amir Tag Elsir	Flowers in Flames	Sudan	Dar Al Saqi
	Longlist	Antoine Douaihy	The Last Country	Lebanon	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Ahmad Abdulatif	The Earthen Fortress	Egypt	Dar al-Ain
		Hamed al-Nazir	The Black Peacock	Sudan	Medad
		Rasha Adly	Passion	Egypt	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Amin Zaoui	Leg Over Leg - in the Sighting of the Lovers' Crescent	Algeria	Al-Ikhtilef
		Fadi Azzam	Huddud's House	Syria	Dar al-Adab
		Amjad Nasser	Here is the Rose	Jordan	Dar al-Adab
		Atef Abu Saif	Christina	Palestine	Al Ahlia
		Hussein Yassin	Ali, the Story of an Honourable Man	Palestine	Dar al-Ru'aat
		Taleb al-Refai	Al-Najdi	Kuwait	That al-Salasil
2019	Winner	Hoda Barakat	The Night Mail [4]	Lebanon	Dar al-Adab
	Shortlist	Adel Esmat	The Commandments	Egypt	Kotob Khan
		Inaam Kachachi	The Outcast	Iraq	Dar al-Jadid
		Mohammed Al-Maazuz	What Sin Caused Her to Die?	Morocco	Cultural Book Center
		Shahla Ujayli	Summer with the Enemy	Syria	Difaf Publishing
		Kafa Al-Zou'bi	Cold White Sun	Jordan	Dar al-Adab
	Longlist	Mohammed Abi Samra	Women Without Trace	Lebanon	Riyad al-Rayyes
		Jalal Barjas	Women of the Five Senses	Jordan	Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing
		Mbarek Rabi	Western Mediterranean	Morocco	Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing
		Omaima Abdullah Al-Khamis	Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate	Saudi Arabia	Dar Al Saqi
		Iman Yehia	The Mexican Wife	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouk
		Maysalun Hadi	Mohammed's Brothers	Iraq	Dar al-Dhakira
		Habib Sayah	Me and Haim	Algeria	Dar Mim
		May Menassa	I Killed My Mother in Order to Live	Lebanon	Riyad al-Rayyes
		Haji Jaber	Black Foam	Eritrea	Dar Tanweer (Lebanon)
		Waciny Laredj	May — the Nights of Isis Copia	Algeria	Dar al-Adab
2020	Winner	Abdelouahab Aissaoui	The Spartan Court [5]	Algeria	Dar Min
	Shortlist	Alia Mamdouh	The Tank	Iraq	Al-Mutawassit
		Khalil Alrez	The Russian Quarter	Syria	Difaf Publishing
		Jabbour Douaihy	The King of India	Lebanon	Dar Al Saqi
		Said Khatibi	Firewood of Sarajevo	Algeria	Al-Ikhtilef
		Youssef Ziedan	Fardeqan – the Detention of the Great Sheikh	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouk
	Longlist	Salim Barakat	What About Rachel, the Jewish Lady?	Syria	Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing
		Aisha Ibrahim	The War of the Gazelle	Libya	Tripoli Scientific Bookshop
		Samir Kacimi	The Stairs of Trolar	Algeria	Editions Barzakh
		Bachir Mefti	The Mingling of the Seasons	Algeria	Al-Ikhtilef
		Rasha Adly	The Last Days of the Pasha	Egypt	Arab Scientific Publishers
		Azher Jerjis	Sleeping in the Cherry Field	Iraq	Dar al-Rafidain
		Magbool Al-Alawi	Seferberlik	Saudi Arabia	Dar Al Saqi
		Khaled Khalifa	No One Prayed Over Their Graves	Syria	Hachette Antoine/Naufal
		Mohammed Eissa al-Mu'adab	Hammam Dhahab	Tunisia	Mesaa
		Hassan Aourid	Al-Mutanabbi's Rabat	Morocco	Al-Markez al-Thaqafi al-Arabia
2021	Winner	Jalal Barjas	Notebooks of the Bookseller [2]	Jordan	The Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing
	Shortlist	Abdulatif Ould Abdullah	The Eye of Hammurabi	Algeria	Dar Mim
		Amira Ghenim	Calamity of the Nobility	Tunisia	Dar Mesaa
		Dunya Mikhail	The Bird Tattoo	Iraq	Dar al-Rafidain
		Habib Selmi	Longing for the Woman Next Door	Tunisia	Dar al-Adab
		Abdelmeguid Sabata	File 42	Morocco	Al-Markez al-Thaqafi al-Arabi
	Longlist	Youssef Fadel	The Life of Butterflies	Morocco	Al-Mutawassit
		Abdullah Al-Eyaf	Hole to Heaven	Saudi Arabia	Dar Rashm
		Sara al-Nams	J	Algeria	Dar al-Adab
		Abbas Baydoun	Boxes of Desire	Lebanon	Dar al-Ain
		Hamed al-Nazir	Two Green Eyes	Sudan	Dar Tanweer - Lebanon
		Amara Lakhous	The Night Bird	Algeria	Manshurat al-Hibr
		Abdullah Albsais	M for Murderer: S for Sa'id	Kuwait	Riwayat
		Ahmed Zein	Fruit for the Crows	Yemen	Al-Mutawassit
		Muhsin Al-Ramli	Daughter of the Tigris	Iraq	Dar al-Mada
		Mansoura Ez Eldin	The Orchards of Basra	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouk
2022	Winner	Mohamed Alnaas	Bread on Uncle Milad's Table [6]	Libya	Rashm
	Shortlist	Khalid Al-Nasrallah	The White Line of Night	Kuwait	Dar Al Saqi
		Mohsine Loukili	The Prisoner of the Portuguese	Morocco	Dar Mim
		Reem al-Kamali	Rose's Diary	UAE	Dar al-Adab
		Bushra Khalfan	Dilshad	Oman	Takween
		Tarek Emam	Cairo Maquette	Egypt	Al-Mutawassit
	Longlist	Dima Al Shukr	Where Is My Name?	Syria	Dar Al Adab
		Yaa'rab al-Eissa	The White Minaret	Syria	Al-Mutawassit
		Mohamed Tawfik	The Whisper of the Scorpion	Egypt	Dar al-Ain
		Mona al-Shammari	The Maids of the Shrine	Kuwait	Dar Al Saqi
		Rouchdi Redouane	The Hungarian	Algeria	Dar al-Adab
		Boumediene Belkebir	The Alley of the Italians	Algeria	Al-Ikhtilef
		Haji Jabir	The Abyssinian Rimbaud	Eritrea	Takween
		Belal Fadl	Mother of Mimi	Egypt	Dar al-Mada
		Nizar Aghri	In Search of Azar	Syria	Al Kotob Khan
		Ezzedine Choukri Fishere	Farah's Story	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouk
2023	Winner	Zahran Alqasmi	The Exile of the Water Diviner	Oman	Rashm
	Shortlist	Fatima Abdulhamid	The Highest Part of the Horizon	Saudi Arabia	Masciliana
		Al-Sadiq Haj Ahmed	Drought	Algeria	Dar Dwaya
		Najwa Binshatwan	Concerto Qurina Eduardo	Libya	Takween - Iraq
		Azher Jirjees	The Stone of Happiness	Iraq	Dar Al-Rafidain - Lebanon
		Miral al-Tahawy	Days of the Shining Sun	Egypt	Dar al-Ain
	Longlist	Ahmad Abdulatif	The Ages of Daniel in the City of Threads	Egypt	Dar al-Ain
		Lina Huyan Elhassan	The Ruler of the Two Fortresses	Syria	Dar al-Adab
		Ahmed El-Fakharany	Bar Lialina	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouk
		Mohammed Harradi	The Melody of the Rabbit	Morocco	Al-Mutawassit
		Sausan Jamil Hasan	My Name Is Zayzafoune	Syria	Al-Rabie
		Aisha Ibrahim	The Box of Sand	Libya	Al-Mutawassit
		Nasser Iraq	The Antikkhana	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouk
		Rabia Raihane	The Family House	Morocco	Dar al-Ain
		Qassem Tawfik	One Night is Enough	Jordan	Al Aan
		May Telmissany	They All Say I Love You	Egypt	Dar al-Shorouk
2024	Winner	Basim Khandaqji	A Mask, the Color of the Sky	Palestine	Dar al-Adab
	Shortlist	Rima Bali	Suleima’s Ring	Syria	Tanmia Publishing
		Osama Al-Eissa	The Seventh Heaven of Jerusalem	Palestine	Al Mutawassit
		Raja Alem	Bahbel: Makkah Multiverse 1945-2009	Saudi Arabia	Dar Tanweer
		Ahmed Al-Morsi	Gambling on the Honor of Lady Mitsy	Egypt	Dar Dawen
		Eissa Nasiri	The Mosaicist	Morocco	Masciliana
	Longlist	Mohammed Abdel Nabi	Nearly Every Day	Egypt	Markez al-Mahrusa
		Badriya Albadri	Foumbi	Oman	Dar Al Saqi
		Sara Alsarraf	I Heard Everything	Iraq	Dar al-Hikma
		Rashid al-Daif	The Other Face of the Shadow	Lebanon	Dar Al Saqi
		Dorra al-Fazi'	I Hide Passion	Tunisia	Sindbad
		Saleh al-Hamad	Eye of the Kite	Saudi Arabia	Dar Rashm
		Ahmed Menour	Storm Over the Islands	Algeria	Dar al-Tanweer Algeria
		Salha Obeid	Spice Circle	UAE	Al-Mutawassit
		Sufyan Rajab	Reader of the Tanners' Alley	Tunisia	Masciliana
		Amin Zaoui	The Idols	Algeria	Daliman

The winner was announced on 10 March 2008. The shortlist was announced on 29 January 2008, chosen from 131 entries.

The winner was announced on 16 March 2009. The shortlist was announced on 10 December 2008. The longlist was announced on 11 November 2008, chosen from 121 entries.

The winner was announced on 2 March 2010. The shortlist was announced on 15 December 2009. The longlist was announced on 17 November 2009, chosen from 115entries.

The shortlist was announced 9 December 2010, chosen from a total of 123 submissions and a longlist of 16.^[7] The winners were announced on 14 March 2011, the eve of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. This marked the first time the award had been split, as well as the first female winner (Raja'a Alem).^[8]

A total of 101 submissions from 15 countries were whittled down to a longlist of 13. This list was announced in November 2011. The final shortlist of six books was revealed on 11 January 2012. The winner was announced 27 March 2012.^[9]

The longlist of 16 books was announced on 6 December 2012.^[10] The shortlist of six books was announced on 9 January 2013.^[11] The winner was announced on 23 April 2013.^[12][13]

The longlist of 16 books was announced 7 January 2014.^[14] The shortlist of 6 books was announced 10 February 2014.^[15] The winner was announced 29 April 2014.^[16][17][18]

On 13 February 2015 the shortlist was announced.^[19] The winner was announced 6 May 2015.^[20]

The longlist was announced on 12 January 2016. The winner was announced 26 April 2016.^[21]

The winner was announced 25 April 2017.^[22]

The longlist was announced on 17 January 2018. The winner was announced 24 April 2018.

The shortlist was announced on 5 February 2019, chosen from a total of 134 submissions from 9 Arab countries.^[23] The shortlist titles ^[24]

The winner was announced on 14 April 2020. The shortlist was announced on 4 February 2020. The longlist was announced on 17 December 2019, chosen from 128 entries.

The longlist was chosen on 1 March 2021, chosen from 121 entries. The shortlist was announced on 29 March 2021 and the winner on 25 May 2021.^[25]

The judges since 2008 are listed below:

• Feissal Darraj
• Ghalia Qabbani
• Mohammed Bennis
• Mohammed Berrada
• Paul Starkey
• Samuel Shimon

• Fakhri Saleh
• Hartmut Faehndrich
• Mohammad al-Murr
• Rasheed El-Enany
• Youmna el Eid

• Taleb Alrefai
• Raja' Ben Salamah
• Saif al-Rahbi
• Frédéric LaGrange

• Fadhil al-Azzawi
• Munira Al-Fadhel
• Isabella Camera D'Afflitto
• Amjad Nasser
• Said Yaktine

• Georges Tarabichi
• Maudie Bitar
• Hoda Elsadda
• Huda al-Naimi
• Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla

• Galal Amin
• Sobhi al-Boustan
• Ali Ferzat
• Barbara Michalak-Pikulska
• Zahia Smail Salhi

• Saad A. Albazei (Chair)
• Ahmed Alfaitouri
• Zhor Gourram
• Abdullah Ibrahim
• Mehmet Hakki Suçin

• Mourid Barghouti (Chair)
• Ayman A. El-Desouky
• Parween Habib
• Najim A. Kadhim
• Kaoru Yamamoto

• Chair: Charafdin Majdolin, Moroccan critic and academic
• Fowziya Abu Khalid, Saudi Arabian poet, writer, academic and researcher i social and political issues
• Zulaikha Aburisha, Jordanian poet and activist
• Latif Zeitouni, Lebanese academic and literary critic
• Zhang Hong Yi, Chinese translator and researcher

• Chair: Muhsin al-Musawi, an Iraqi literary critic and Professor of Classical and Modern Arabic Literature, Comparative and Cultural Studies at Columbia University
• Pierre Abi Saab, a Lebanese critic, journalist and co-founder of the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper
• Reem Magued, an Eqyptian broadcaster, television journalist and trainer in journalism and media
• Amin Zaoui, an Algerian novelist who writes in both Arabic and French, and Professor of Comparative Literature and Contemporary Thought at the Central University of Algiers
• Viktoria Zarytovskaya, a Russian academic, researcher and translator of numerous works of Arabic literature into Russian including Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, winner of the prize in 2014

• Chair: Chawki Bazih, Lebanese poet and author
• Mohammed Ait Hanna, a Moroccan writer, translator and lecturer of Philosophy at the Regional Centre for Teaching Careers and Training in Casablanca
• Safa Jubran, a lecturer of Arabic Language and Modern Literature at the University of San Paolo in Brazil
• Ali Al-Muqri, a Yemeni writer twice longlisted for IPAF in 2009 and 2011 respectively
• Ayesha Sultan, an Emirati author, journalist, founding director of Warrak Publishing House and Vice President of the Emirates Writers Union

• Shukri Mabkhout
• Ashur Etwebi
• Iman Humaydan
• Saadiah Mufarreh
• Baian Rayhanova

As of 2020, the following authors have been nominated at least three times:

Three nominations

• Antoine Douaihy
• Inaam Kachachi
• Khaled Khalifa
• Renée Hayek
• Youssef Ziedan

Four nominations

• Amir Tag Elsir
• Ibrahim Nasrallah
• Jabbour Douaihy
• Rabee Jaber
• Waciny Laredj

Countries

The countries with the most nominations are:

• Egypt, 34
• Lebanon, 30
• Iraq, 22
• Syria, 20

Sudan, Eritrea and the UAE have one nomination each.

• For details of the annual writers' workshop, see International Prize for Arabic Fiction Nadwa.

• International Prize for Arabic Fiction, official multi-lingual site.
• "Arab 'Booker' stirs up passion"^{[permanent dead link‍]}, by George Walden, The Jerusalem Post, Mar 12, 2008
• "Prize to rekindle Arabic fiction", by Simeon Kerr, Financial Times, March 11, 2008
• "Award cycle: Ipaf draws in writers while readers simply lap up winners", The Gulf Today, November 9, 2013