Marking May as the “Short Story Month,” Words Without Borders highlights some of its stellar past publications, the Dagestani-Russian novelist Alisa Ganieva’s bitterly comic “A Village Feast” among them.
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(pen name of Estabraq Alfaraj) After graduating from law school, Ms. Alfaraj became an investigator at the Ministry of the Interior. She also joined a writers’ league and attended seminars, both of which enabled her to begin publishing articles in newspapers and magazines. In 2004, her short story "Darkness of the Light" won first place in a competition sponsored by the prominent Kuwaiti writer Lila Al-Othman. Ms. Alfaraj continues to work at the ministry.
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