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Syrian writer Khalil Sweileh received this year's Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel "Warrak Al-Hub" (The Scribe of Love) in an awards ceremony at the American University in Cairo in the presence of the jury, AUC Press President Mark Linz, the AUC Provost and an audience of journalists, writers and artists.
Sweileh was presented with a silver medal bearing the image of Mahfouz, a cash prize of $1,000 and an English translation and publication of his book by the AUC Press.
Announcing the award, jury member Samia Mehrez said, "The crafty narrator of 'Warrak Al-Hub' seduces his readers through multiple narrative ruses into the labyrinth of writing, where they finally discover that they were not reading a novel but rather a novel about writing a novel."
Sweileh's literary career started with a poetry collection published in 1982. His first novel,...