Khaled Khalifa

Longlist, 2023 National Book Awards
Finalist, 2019 National Book Awards

Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964 near Aleppo, Syria. He studied law at Aleppo University and participated in the foundation of ALEPH magazine. A few months later, the magazine was closed down by Syrian censorship.
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No One Prayed Over Their Graves

ISBN 9780374601928 Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

From the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village. More about this book >

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Death Is Hard Work

ISBN 9780374135737 Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers /

Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria’s ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination. More about this book >

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Khaled Khalifa

Khaled Khalifa was born in 1964 near Aleppo, Syria. He studied law at Aleppo University and participated in the foundation of ALEPH magazine. A few months later, the magazine was closed down by Syrian censorship. Active in the arts scene in Damascus where he lives, Khalifa is a writer of screenplays for television and cinema as well as novels. His novel Death Is Hard Work was a Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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