Novelist Al-Siddiq Haj Ahmed Al-Ziwani: The arrival of “Mana” to the short list of the “Booker” is a merit of Algerian literature – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryia

The writer, Al-Siddiq Haj Ahmed Al-Ziwani, expressed his happiness at the arrival of the novel “From Us: The Resurrection of the Desert Disperses” to the short list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction “Booker”, considering it the culmination of Algerian literature.

The writer and Professor Al-Siddiq Haj Ahmed Al-Ziwani, a professor of higher education at Adrar University, said in a statement to Al-Hiwar: “I am happy with this merit that the novel “The Resurrection of the Desert Disperses” received from the esteemed jury,” considering in the same context that it is “an entitlement of the Algerian novel and Algerian literature.

Al-Zaywani stated that he was optimistic about “us” reaching the short list for poker, but he put the possibility of not getting up in order not to be shocked, and commented: “Of course I was somewhat optimistic about the short, but I put the possibility of not getting up for the short so as not to be shocked,” adding in the same context: “You cannot predict what your text will reach in the coronation race among the short cohorts, for the simple reason that you have not seen the competing texts.”

“Mana” is a historical and political novel published in 2021 by Dar Al-Dawaya for publication and distribution. It deals with the issue of the migration of the Tuareg from northern Mali after the 1973 drought and the formation of their diaspora in southern Algeria, and then their travel to Libya after Gaddafi’s invitation to them to open their training camps in order to help them establish a state. In the Azawad, but they find what they did not expect, to attack a military barracks in northern Mali in the year 1990, and with this attack the Azawad war began, which is still raging in the coast to this day…

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