Dr Jokha is an Omani writer and academic who made history as the first Arab to win the Man Booker International Prize with Celestial Bodies, and as the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English. Her works have now been translated into 26 languages

She also won the Arab Literature Prize in Paris and the Sultan Qaboos Award for Literature. Several of Dr Jokha’s thirteen novels, including Narinjah, have been shortlisted for prestigious international awards such as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Dublin Literary Award.