of the most extraordinary novels he's read in a long time." The French translation () was published by Actes Sud in 2017 and won the 2017 for the best Arabic novel translated to French in 2017. Its translation in Malayalam language in the title was done by Dr. Shamnad N, Head of the department, University College, Trivandrum, Kerala. (Ave Maria) (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2012) was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (The Arabic Booker) and was translated to Spanish by María Luz Comendador and published by Turner Libros in May 2014 under the title . The English translation (by Maia Tabet) was published in 2017 as The Baghdad Eucharist by Hoopoe Books (AUC Press). (Index) (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2016). Was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Honors and awards 2017 Prix de la Litterature Arabe for "Seul le Grenadier" (Actes Sud, 2017, tr. Leila Mansur) (Wahdaha Shajarat al-Rumman/The Corpse Washer). 2017 "Fihris"(Index) longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. 2016/2017: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin). 2014: Saif Ghobash Prize for Literary Translation for his translation of his own novel The Corpse Washer (The first self-translation to win the prize.) 2014: Arab American Book Award for The Corpse Washer 2014: Lannan Residency (Marfa, TX). 2013:Ya Maryam (Ave Maria) shortlisted for the 2013 International Prize of Arabic Fiction (The Arabic Booker) 2013: Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin 2012: National Translation Award for his translation of Mahmoud Darwish's In the Presence of Absence from the American Literary Translators Association 2008: Postdoctoral Fellowship: EUME (Europe in the Middle East/The Middle East in Europe), Berlin, Germany. 2002: Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources. Works Books The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf. Harvard University Press. 2006. The Baghdad Blues. Harbor Mountain Press. 2007. . Ya Maryam (Ave Maria). Dar al-Jamal. 2012. The Baghdad Eucharist. Oxford University Press. 2017. . The Book of Collateral Damage. Yale University Press. 28 May 2019. . Film About Baghdad See also Iraqi art List of Iraqi artists Further reading Iğsız, Aslii. "Conversation with Sinan Antoon: Poet and Novelist." University of Arizona Poetry Center. References External links Official Website New York University Biography Democracy Now! Biography Biography from the Berlin International Literature Festival Living people 1967 births Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts