Jokha al-Harthi

Jokha al-Harthi is an Omani novelist and the first Arab woman to win the International Booker Prize, which she received in 2019 for *Celestial Bodies*. Born in Oman in 1978, she holds a PhD in classical Arabic poetry from the University of Edinburgh. Her fiction explores the sweeping changes in Omani society across generations, particularly the lives of women before and after the abolition of slavery.