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Best Book of Any Year: A Thousand and One Nights

Mazen Maarouf

Translated by Jonathan Wright

Mazen Maarouf on why A Thousand and One Nights is the best book of any year.

Mazen Maarouf

MAZEN MAAROUF was born in Beirut in 1978. He is a Palestinian-Icelandic writer, poet, translator and journalist. He has published three poetry collections and two short story collections. He currently lives between Reykjavik and Beirut.

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Translated by Jonathan Wright

Jonathan Wright is a British literary translator who has translated more than a dozen Arabic novels and short-story collections into English since 2008, including three winners of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He has won the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation twice.

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