Ibrahim Nasrallah was born in Amman in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were uprooted from their land in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in the Al-Wahdat Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. He began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia. He returned to Amman and worked in journalism and the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, and devoted himself to writing in 2006. He has published 14 poetry collections and 14 novels to date, including his novel project, The Palestinian Odyssey, which consists of seven novels covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history. Four of his novels and a collection of poetry have been translated into English, including his novel “The Time of White Horses,” which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2009, and “Lanterns of the King of Galilee,” which was longlisted for the award in 2013. “The Time of White Horses” was shortlisted for the Middle East Monitor Prize in London for the best novel about Palestine in 2014. Three of his books have been translated into Italian, a novel into Danish, and another into Turkish. Nasrallah is also a painter and photographer, and has held four solo exhibitions of photography. Nasrallah has won eight awards, including the prestigious Sultan Al Owais Award for Arabic Poetry in 1997; his novel “Prairies of Fever” was chosen by the British Guardian newspaper as one of the ten most important novels written by Arabs or foreigners about the Arab world. In 2012, he won the Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity, which was awarded for the first time in recognition of his literary works. His novel, The Spirits of Kilimanjaro (2015), won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel in 2016.