Diaa Jubaili

Diaa Jubaili was born in Basra, Iraq, where he still lives. He is the author of eight novels and three short-story collections, including No Windmills in Basra, winner of the 2018 Al-Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story, and What Will We Do Without Calvino?, winner of the Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing. He was a contributor to the science-fiction anthology Iraq +100 and has written for the Guardian.