Samar Yazbek

Books on prize lists

• ذاكرة النقصان

  In English

  SaveYour Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza to read later

  National Book Award 2026 · Finalist

  Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza

  ذاكرة النقصان · Dhakirat al-nuqsan

  Samar Yazbek · 55 when first published

  Nonfiction · 256 pages · War, Politics

  Translated by Leri Price

  AIAI-generated summary:Wounded survivors of the war in Gaza tell their stories to a Syrian writer, who records their memories so that they are heard as people with names and lives, not as numbers.

• مقام الريح

  In English

  SaveWhere the Wind Calls Home to read later

  National Book Award 2024 · Finalist

  Where the Wind Calls Home

  مقام الريح · Maqam al-rih

  Samar Yazbek · 51 when first published

  Novel · War, Politics

  Translated by Leri Price

  AIAI-generated summary:A wounded young soldier lies on a Syrian mountaintop between death and life, piecing his past back together, from his childhood in a remote village in the coastal mountains.

• المشّاءة

  In English

  SavePlanet of Clay to read later

  National Book Award 2021 · Finalist

  Planet of Clay

  المشّاءة · Al-Mashsha'a

  Samar Yazbek · 47 when first published

  Novel · War

  Translated by Leri Price

  AIAI-generated summary:A young woman who cannot stop walking and refuses to speak, tied by a rope to her mother's wrist, gives up words for drawings and colours as the world around her falls apart.