Paul G. Starkey

About The Author

Paul G. Starkey has translated works by Adania Shibli, Mansoura Ez Eldin, Youssef Rakha, Edwar al-Kharrat, Mahmoud Shukair, Hammour Ziada and others. He was Winner of the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation of The Book of the Sultan's Seal by Youssef Rakha.

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Books by Paul G. Starkey

The Bookseller's Notebooks

By Jalal Barjas

Translated by Paul G. Starkey

Winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction—known as the "Arabic Booker Prize"— this novel explores themes of loneliness, homelessness, and mental illness.

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The Drowning

By Hammour Ziada

Translated by Paul G. Starkey

An intelligent and compelling novel that lifts a corner of the veil that covers the misery of so many women’s lives

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