Oman author Jokha Alharthi wins prestigious Booker International Prize

Female Omani writer Jokha Alharthi is the victor of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her novel "Divine Bodies," the honor jury declared on Tuesday. The work recounts to the story about growing up of three sisters in an Omani town, and was initially distributed in Arabic. 

Jury head Bettany Hughes portrayed the novel as "a book to prevail upon the head and the heart in equivalent measure" at a service in London. 

The creator's style is set apart by "unpretentiously opposing platitudes of race, bondage and sexual orientation," Hughes included. 

The esteemed Man Booker International Prize spotlights on scholars outside English-language regions. It fills in as a partner to the Man Booker Prize for English-language books. The 50,000 pounds ($63,585, €56,967) budgetary honor is to be part among Alharthi and her interpreter Marilyn Booth. 

Alharthi is the principal female essayist from Oman to be converted into English. Her most recent achievement likewise makes her the principal Arabic writer to guarantee the Man Booker International Prize. 

Story of servitude 

"Heavenly Bodies" additionally digs into the subject of subjugation in Oman, which was just prohibited in 1970. 

"It's a delicate subject and sort of a forbidden," Alharthi said in a dramatic meeting. "However, I think writing is the best stage to talk about delicate issues. Also, subjugation isn't elite to Oman - it's a piece of mankind's history." 

"I am excited that a window has been opened to the rich Arabic culture," she later told correspondents. 

The 40-year-old teacher had considered Arabic verse and Classical Arabic Literature in Edinburgh before coming back to Oman to educate at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. Her works incorporate three different books, two kids books, and a few accumulations of short stories.