SANAA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Amid Yemen's decade-long war, novelist Hamid Al-Raqimi has emerged as one of its most vital storytellers, tracing how conflict fractures ordinary lives. His fiction unfolds in fragments and broken scenes, a structure that mirrors the splintered worlds his characters inhabit.
Al-Raqimi's latest novel, "The Blindness of Memory," recently won the 11th Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, a recognition that affirms both his distinctive craft and the growing international attention to Yemeni literature. In recent years, that literature has turned its gaze inward, toward the ruins of ordinary life and the quiet devastations that follow spectacle.
