Jana Fawaz Elhassan

About The Author

Jana Fawaz Elhassan is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Lebanon. She has worked as a journalist for leading newspapers and TV since 2008. In November 2015, she was featured in the BBC 100 Women Season, an annual two-week season that features inspiring women from around the world. Her first novel won Lebanon’s Simon Hayek Award and her second novel was shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction. The Ninety-Ninth Floor—shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for International Fiction—is her third novel and the first to be translated into English.

Books by Jana Fawaz Elhassan

The Ninety-Ninth Floor
By Jana Fawaz Elhassan
Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2015. At times as cold and hard-edged as the skyscrapers in its backdrop, The Ninety-Ninth Floor follows the struggles and triumphs of Majed as he makes it in Manhattan at the turn of the century, after surviving the devastating 1982 mass...
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