International Prize for Arabic Fiction countdown

       The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction will be announced tomorrow, and in The National Asmaa Al Hameli finds International fiction prize spreads the word about Arabic literature, as one of the main goals of the prize -- spreading the word about Arabic fiction -- seems to be going quite well.
       Still, there's success, and there's success. Sure:

One of the early Ipaf winners was Youssef Ziedan, whose novel Azazeel took the prize in 2009. It later won the 2012 Anobii First Book Award after it was translated into English. The translation, by Jonathan Wright, also won the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in February.

Azazeel has now been published in 25 languages, including Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Turkish and Russian.

       Sounds good, right ? Except ... a US edition ? sorry, none yet (as best I can tell) -- and I haven't seen the book. So ......