International Prize for Arabic Fiction

The winner was announced on 10 March 2008. The shortlist was announced on 29 January 2008, chosen from 131 entries.

The winner was announced on 16 March 2009. The shortlist was announced on 10 December 2008. The longlist was announced on 11 November 2008, chosen from 121 entries.

The winner was announced on 2 March 2010. The shortlist was announced on 15 December 2009. The longlist was announced on 17 November 2009, chosen from 115entries.

Mohammed Achaari & Raja'a Alem, joint winners of the 2011 prize

The shortlist was announced 9 December 2010, chosen from a total of 123 submissions and a longlist of 16.[7] The winners were announced on 14 March 2011, the eve of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. This marked the first time the award had been split, as well as the first female winner (Raja Alem).[8]

A total of 101 submissions from 15 countries were whittled down to a longlist of 13. This list was announced in November 2011. The final shortlist of six books was revealed on 11 January 2012. The winner was announced 27 March 2012.[9]

The longlist of 16 books was announced on 6 December 2012.[10] The shortlist of six books was announced on 9 January 2013.[11] The winner was announced on 23 April 2013.[12][13]

The longlist of 16 books was announced 7 January 2014.[14] The shortlist of 6 books was announced 10 February 2014.[15] The winner was announced 29 April 2014.[16][17][18]

The longlist.[19] On 13 February 2015 the shortlist was announced.[20] The winner was announced 6 May 2015.[21]

The longlist was announced on 12 January 2016. The winner was announced 26 April 2016.[22]

The winner was announced 25 April 2017.[23]

The longlist was announced on 17 January 2018. The winner was announced 24 April 2018.

The shortlist was announced on 5 February 2019, chosen from a total of 134 submissions from 9 Arab countries.[24] The shortlist titles [25]

The winner was announced on 14 April 2020. The shortlist was announced on 4 February 2020. The longlist was announced on 17 December 2019, chosen from 128 entries.

The longlist was chosen on 1 March 2021, chosen from 121 entries. The shortlist was announced on 29 March 2021 and the winner on 25 May 2021.[26]

• Feissal Darraj
• Ghalia Qabbani
• Mohammed Bennis
• Mohammed Berrada
• Paul Starkey
• Samuel Shimon

• Fakhri Saleh
• Hartmut Faehndrich
• Mohammad al-Murr
• Rasheed El-Enany
• Youmna el Eid

• Taleb Alrefai
• Raja' Ben Salamah
• Saif al-Rahbi
• Frédéric LaGrange

• Fadhil al-Azzawi
• Munira Al-Fadhel
• Isabella Camera D'Afflitto
• Amjad Nasser
• Said Yaktine

• Georges Tarabichi
• Maudie Bitar
• Hoda Elsadda
• Huda al-Naimi
• Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla

• Galal Amin
• Sobhi al-Boustan
• Ali Ferzat
• Barbara Michalak-Pikulska
• Zahia Smail Salhi

• Saad A. Albazei (Chair)
• Ahmed Alfaitouri
• Zhor Gourram
• Abdullah Ibrahim
• Mehmet Hakki Suçin

• Mourid Barghouti (Chair}
• Ayman A. El-Desouky
• Parween Habib
• Najim A. Kadhim
• Kaoru Yamamoto

• Chair: Charafdin Majdolin, Moroccan critic and academic
• Fowziya Abu Khalid, Saudi Arabian poet, writer, academic and researcher i social and political issues
• Zulaikha Aburisha, Jordanian poet and activist
• Latif Zeitouni, Lebanese academic and literary critic
• Zhang Hong Yi, Chinese translator and researcher

• Chair: Muhsin al-Musawi, an Iraqi literary critic and Professor of Classical and Modern Arabic Literature, Comparative and Cultural Studies at Columbia University
• Pierre Abi Saab, a Lebanese critic, journalist and co-founder of the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper
• Reem Magued, an Eqyptian broadcaster, television journalist and trainer in journalism and media
• Amin Zaoui, an Algerian novelist who writes in both Arabic and French, and Professor of Comparative Literature and Contemporary Thought at the Central University of Algiers
• Viktoria Zarytovskaya, a Russian academic, researcher and translator of numerous works of Arabic literature into Russian including Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, winner of the prize in 2014

• Chair: Chawki Bazih, Lebanese poet and author
• Mohammed Ait Hanna, a Moroccan writer, translator and lecturer of Philosophy at the Regional Centre for Teaching Careers and Training in Casablanca
• Safa Jubran, a lecturer of Arabic Language and Modern Literature at the University of San Paolo in Brazil
• Ali Al-Muqri, a Yemeni writer twice longlisted for IPAF in 2009 and 2011 respectively
• Ayesha Sultan, an Emirati author, journalist, founding director of Warrak Publishing House and Vice President of the Emirates Writers Union

• Shukri Mabkhout
• Ashur Etwebi
• Iman Humaydan
• Saadiah Mufarreh
• Baian Rayhanova