In his new novel, the author of the «Collar of purity» frees his characters from the dead-end of ready-made ideas, and weaves their lives away from preaching and proselytizing. Ghalib, Ghada, Badriya, Salman and the other characters, live the consequences of many of the disadvantages of the Saudi society

As a follow up on the previous post, concerning a very interesting interview given by Hawra al Nadawi to politiken in Denmark, I am happy to announce that the Danish rights of the young author’s book ‘Under the Copenhagen’s sky’, was acquired by C&K Forlag.

On December 12th, the Danish widely read newspaper Politiken interviewed Hawra Al Nadawi. The young writer was long-listed for the IPAF (Arab Man Booker), for her first novel ‘Under the Copenhagen sky’ published by Dar al Saqi, Lebanon, in 2010. Below, with some delay, the English translation of the interview that didn’t go unnoticed in Denmark (approximate translation — thank you Google! — as I have no knowledge whatsoever of Danish). As several Danish colleagues confessed, such a book giving an insight into the Arab emigrant population of Denmark has …

RAYA now proudly represents the list of the Lebanese house Dar al saqi. Go to the ‘Clients’ list’ in the menu, and stay updated with authors and titles from their wide list that we will be putting the spot lights on!