Badriyya al-Shihhi

Badriyya al-Shihhi (born 1971) is an Omani novelist, the first Omani woman writer to publish a novel. In the judgment of the Egyptian poet and journalist Ashraf Dali, al-Shihhi's 1999 novel "realized the birth of the real Omani novel".
References.
Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, "Modern Poetry and Prose of Oman 1970-2000", Krakow: The Enigma Press 2002