Said Khatibi

Said Khatibi is an Algerian writer. He was born in 1984, and studied at the University of Algiers and at the Sorbonne. His books include the following titles:

• The Book of Faults (kitab al-khataya), novel, 2013
• The Gardens of the East Afflamed (jana’in al-sharq al-multahiba), travel in the Balkans, 2015
• Forty Years Waiting for Isabel, novel, 2016
• Firewood of Sarajevo, novel, 2018

Firewood of Sarajevo was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize. Forty Years Waiting for Isabel was translated into Spanish by . Khatibi has also translated the poetry of Kateb Yacine, and a volume of Algerian short stories into French.

He lives in Slovenia.^[1][2]

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