The International Prize for Arabic Fiction has announced its six shortlisted authors who are competing to receive a $50,000 award when the winner is revealed on May 25. Read on to learn more about the writers and their novels . Abdulatif Ould Abdullah - ‘The Eye of Hammurabi’ In the Algerian writer’s book “The Eye of Hammurabi,” he opens with the interrogation of a man in a military encampment after ...