Bitter Orange Tree

Jokha Alharthi is an Omani novelist and academic, born in 1978. She holds a PhD in classical Arabic literature from the University of Edinburgh and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. Her novel Celestial Bodies (Arabic: Sayyidat al-Qamar), translated into English by Marilyn Booth, made her the first Arab author to win the International Booker Prize, in 2019. Her fiction explores family life and societal change in Oman.