Ibrahim al-Koni

Ibrahim al-Koni was born in 1948 in the Fezzan, into a Tuareg family, spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read Arabic only at twelve. Leaving for the Soviet Union in 1970, he studied literature and journalism at the Gorky Institute in Moscow, worked as a journalist in Warsaw, then settled in Switzerland in 1993. The author of more than eighty books, novels, short stories and aphorisms, almost all devoted to the desert, he received the Mohamed Zafzaf Prize in 2005, the Sheikh Zayed Prize in 2008 and the Swiss state's special prize for his body of work.

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• NovelGold DustالتبرIbrahim al-Koni · 1990Literature