Jokha Alharthi

Jokha Alharthi is an Omani writer and academic, born in 1978; associate professor of Arabic literature at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, with a doctorate in classical Arabic literature from the University of Edinburgh (2011). ¹ Her novel Sayyidat al-Qamar, in Marilyn Booth's English translation Celestial Bodies, won the Man Booker International Prize in 2019, making her the first Arab author to win it; her other novels include Manamat, Narinjah (Bitter Orange Tree) and Harir al-Ghazala (Silken Gazelles). ²

Alharthi was born in Oman in 1978, the year the English article gives; the Arabic article gives no birth date, and Wikidata's fuller date of 16 July 1978 is stated in no article read, so it is recorded in her data record as an unverified variant and the birth stays at year precision. ^{1 3} She was educated in Oman and the United Kingdom, took her PhD in classical Arabic literature at Edinburgh in 2011, and was appointed at Sultan Qaboos University in 2010, where she is now an associate professor; she has three children. ^{1 2} The sources name no religion for Alharthi; her academic field is classical Arabic literature and her fiction portrays Omani society across generations, neither of which is attestation of personal affiliation, so the museum records none. ^{1 3}

She has published three collections of short stories, three children's books and four novels: Manamat (2004); Sayyidat al-Qamar (2010), whose English translation by Marilyn Booth won the Man Booker International Prize in 2019 and was the first novel by an Omani woman to appear in English; Narinjah (2016), which won the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature; and Harir al-Ghazala (2021). ¹ Her academic works include a study of literary composition method, her collection and edition of the diwan of Shaykh Ahmad ibn Abdullah al-Harthi, and a study of the body in classical Arabic love poetry. ² Her work has been translated into English, Serbian, Korean, Italian and German, among other languages. ¹

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