BTL Participants by Region/Country

AFGHANISTAN

Haroon EHSAN 2019

Yonus SAHADAT 2019

Khalida KHAIRI 2021

Bibi Aisha MURADI 2021

Niloufar RASOULI 2021

Hamid REZAEE 2022

Hooria AKHGAR 2022

Lina ALIMIZADA 2023

Narges RASOULI 2023

Asma SULTANI 2023

Farwa WAFAYEE 2023

ALGERIA

Houda GHENIM 2010

Hind RAHMOUN 2011

Amira ALI BOUAOUINA 2012

Ikram Cherifa GAGAOUA 2012

Amani HAMMAMI 2016

Lina BAAZIZ 2017

Abdelbaki HAMOUCHE 2017

Sarah BENABDELLAH 2018

Halima ZHAGBIB 2018

Nour El Houda BERKANE 2020

ARMENIA

Lianna ARAKELYAN 2015    

Narine HARUTYUNYAN 2015

Avetis HARUTYUNYAN 2015

Meri SHAROYAN 2015

Marian YEGHIAZARYAN 2015

Aren SEDRAKYAN 2019

Nane VARDANYAN 2019

Aleksandr CHOBANYAN 2021

Vahan MANISAJIAN 2022

Tsovinar TADEVOSYAN 2022

AZERBAIJAN

Maryam MIRILI 2019

Farah HAJIZADA 2020 

Huseyn ALILI 2020

Aliyeva MEHRIBAN 2021

BAHRAIN

Ali ALBANKI 2010

Batool ALHEJAIRI 2010

Ghazi ALSHEHABI 2010

Hadeel AL HADDAD 2011

Sayed Ali Majed Jasim Alawi KADHEM 2012

Fares ZUBARI 2012

Ahmed ALI 2013

Yaqeen ALKHANAIZI 2013

Noora AL-DOSERI 2014

Dana RADHI 2014

Jenan HASAN 2015

Lujain Ali Hasan Ali ALSAIBAI 2016

Walaa ALBAQALI 2017

Ruba AHMED 2018

BANGLADESH

Mohammed IRFAN 2015

Nafira AHMAD 2020 

Samira HOSSAIN 2020 

Anuva CHOWDHURY 2021

Ariya MASHIYAT 2021

Rudaina MUSTANSIR 2021

Ifsat Jerin APSARA 2022

Zuyena KEHKASHA 2022

Uzayer MASUD 2023

Azima QUYUM 2023 

CANADA

Isobel Lise MCHATTIE 2012

CHINA

Junnan TU 2015

Jiayi WANG 2015

Ruishan DING 2019

Qianhui MA 2019

Leyun CHENG 2021

Anxing SHEN 2021

EGYPT

Sally EL-HAK 2011

Salma Mohamed Mounir AMMAR 2012

Akram ELNAGDY 2013

Nada ABDELHAMID 2014

Merna WAHBA 2014

Reem BADR 2015

Nada Mohamed Nabil ALI 2016

Mohammed ABDELSHAFY 2017

Abdelrahman ELTAGER 2018

Nagham SAFWAT 2019

Nadine MOHAMED 2019

Omar IBRAHIM 2020 

Noureen MAHMOUD 2020

Mona ABD EL-GAWAD 2021

Basant GERGES 2021

Omar Mahmoud MNFY 2022

Dana Nagah MOUSA 2022

GEORGIA

Ulvi GITALIYEV 2019

Ana GRIGALASHVILI 2019

Mariam SAMKHARADZE 2019

Tekle ALAVIDZE 2020 

Aleksandre KHUNDZAKISHVILLI 2020 

Mariam GULEDANI 2021

Elizaveta KUKAVA 2021

Luka ZUKHUBAIA 2021

Sophiko DATUASHVILI 2022

Ekaterine METREVELI 2022

GHANA

Shalom LIVINGSTON 2023

Cyril SACKEY 2023

Inis TAGBOR 2023

INDIA

Ngawang LACHUNGPA BHUTIA 2015

Satyendra NAIR 2015

Sankalpita MULLICK 2019

Paridhi PURI 2019

Arshveen HORA 2020 

Vardaan PANDEY 2020 

Tara AWATE 2021

Janina SHIVDASANI 2021

Roshmi DASGUPTA 2023

IRAQ

Hussein AL-MSHTTAWI 2015

Mohammed Ameen Abed AL-HAJJAJ 2016

Tarik SHWAISH 2017

Rastyar HASHIM 2018

Helan AHMED 2019

Shadi ALI 2020 

Alle FAEQ 2021

Roza NICHIRVAN 2021

Sova Sarkawt HAMA HUSSEIN 2022

Abdulrahman Sabir SULAIMAN 2022

ISRAEL

Randa GHANTOUS 2008

Ehab GHOSHEH 2008

Bana AASSY 2009

Ahmad EZERY 2009

Nael ROBY 2009

Lana NAJJAR 2011

Maha ZIDAN 2011

Yasmeen ATME 2013

Fatima ATMA 2014

Orwa ABU MUKH 2015

Haneen HLEIHIL 2017

Gili NAGGAR 2018

JORDAN

Hiba AS-MASRI 2008

Karim GHAWI 2008

Faris JABER 2008

Zaid AL-NASSIR 2009

Bashar AL-SAWAFTAH 2009

Iya GHASSIB 2009

Yusra ARAFEH 2013

Yazan Omari 2014

Aya Nader Moh’d ALBSOUL 2016

Farah AL-REFAI 2017

Fares AMER 2017

Sara MAKAHLEH 2018

Rakan ABUTAYEH 2019

Shurouq BUSTANJI 2020 

Mohammad AL ADDASI 2021

Miral Ibrahim ALMUASHER 2022

Ramzi Zaid MASANNAT 2022

KAZAKHSTAN

Dana Daniyarovna KANAFINA 2019

Asparukh Nurzhanuly SULTAN-MURAT 2019

Ulana ZHUSSIP 2020 

Daiana USSENKHAN 2021

Aruzhan ZHANABATYROVA 2021

Anel AZHIBAYEVA 2022

KUWAIT

Tala EL-ROZ 2013

KYRGYZSTAN

Azamat OMURALIEV 2015

Sabina UMURZAKOVA 2015

Abdumalik Akmatovich ZHUSUPOV 2019

LEBANON

Eliane AOUN 2008

Ali AWARKE 2008

Nadia EL MALT 2009

Hussein YOUNEISS 2009

Elie NASSAR 2010

Nour SALIBA 2010

Jana Mahmoud KHALED 2019

Sabine SHEHAB 2019

Amir KABALAN 2020 

Celine KRAITEM 2020 

Christopher EID 2021

Reina NAJJAR 2021

Joe SAWMA 2021

Sara TANNOUS 2021

Alma YAAFOURI 2021

Angela Hassan ABD ELKHALEK 2022

Daniel Ayman EL-DANAF 2022

Marita Tateos JOULFAYAN 2022

Ghida KAWTHARANI 2022

Sara Tarek NAJIA 2022

Miguel KATTOUAH 2023

LIBYA

Amr BENNIS 2010

MONGOLIA

Khulan ERDENECHIMEG 2019

Sansar BATBAYAR 2021

Tenuun LKHAGVADORJ 2021

MOROCCO

Maisa FARID 2011

Oussama GHAJJOU 2011

Imane KASRAOUI 2012

Lahoucine OUMANSOUR 2012

Salma BENOMARA 2013

Ilyas SAMIG 2013

Kaotar AIT ALI 2014

Jalal DLIMI 2014

Mohammed EL WAHABI 2015

Imane BOUHAICHANA 2016

Omar KHATTALA 2016

Zineb LAADIOUI 2017

Doha EL JERRARI 2018

Haroun MOUDEN 2020 

Ibaa Hadj MESSAOUD 2020 

Amalou OASSOU 2021

NEPAL

Chiran PANDEY 2015

Jigyasa SUBEDI 2015

Prabigyan ARYAL 2019

Jasmine SHRESTHA 2019

OMAN

Nadia ALTAEI 2010

Hajir ALZADJALI 2015

PAKISTAN

Ahmad IBRAHIM 2015

Zainab Nasim PASHA 2015

Amsel SALEEM 2015

Ayesha SHAIKH 2019

Adan ZIA 2020 

Zainab HASAN 2020 

Arshiya HUSAIN 2021

Zainab LODI 2021

Nina PERCHANI 2023

Aleena TAHIR 2023

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

Qais MOUSA 2008

Rand SAFI 2008

Lina SOUFAN 2008

Irene GHATTAS 2009

Majd IWIDAT 2009

Khalil ABDALHADI 2010

Baha ATTAALLAH 2010

Ayah RABAH 2010

Mohammed J.M. ALBAZ 2012

Rawan N.M. YAGHI 2012

Fawzi Saleem ZGHYER 2012

Intimaa ABUHELOU 2013

Rana MOURTAJA 2015

Mohammad Nabil Said AL-KURD 2016

Haneen ZAQOUT 2017

Ramez HAYEK 2018

RUSSIA

Anastasia DYACHENKO 2012

Alexander GUBAREV 2012

Darya KOTOVA 2012

Leonid KUZMENKO 2012

Elena KUZRYAVKINA 2012

Sofiko LABZHANIYA 2012

Alexandra SAMARINA 2012

Margarita SHCLHLEGLOVA 2012

Tatyana SYATCHIKHINA 2012

Danila TROFIMOV 2012

Zoya ANYTSHEVA 2013

Inna DMITRIEVA 20113

Evgeniya DROBOTUNM 2013

Anastasia KHODAKOVA 2013

Alexandra KHRISANOVA 2013

Dmitry KRAVCHENKO 2013

Vicoria LARKINA 2013

Alina VEZHENINA 2013

Daria SMIRNOVA 2013

Mikhail ZAKHAROV 2013

Kirill DYSHLOVOI 2014

Alissiia KHOROSHAVINA 2014

Artem KONDRATEV 2014

Luliia KOZLOVSKAIA 2014

Kirill KUCHINSKII 2014

Anastasiia KURGANOVA 2014

Tatiana LEPKOVICH 2014

Anton MESHKOV 2014

Alena PIKSAEVA 2014

Alina VASYLYEVA 2014

Shunu BAYDALAKOV 2015

Julie CHERNOVA 2015

Maria GRIGORYEVA 2015

Daria IVANOVA 2015

Olga KADOCHNIKOVA 2015

Anastasia KRIZHANOVSKAYA 2015

Anna KONDRATYUK 2015

Irina KUZNETSOVA 2015

Alice MOROZOVA 2015

Elizaveta SHUTOVA 2015

Mikhail SOKOLOV 2015

Anastasiia BESSONOVA 2016

Daria FEDOSEEVA 2016

Yulia GAEVA 2016

Mariia GALKINA 2016

Tatiana GUREVICH 2016

Ekaterina KARNAUKHOVA 2016

Anastasiia KOMAROVA 2016

Vitalii KUZNETSOV 2016

Georgii MARTIROSIAN 2016

Artem SHESHTOPALOV 2016

Anastasiia ZHIGALOVA 2016

Vera ALEKSEEVA 2017

Gerel BADAEVA 2017

Mariia FESENKO 2017

Ekaterina KUZOVIKHINA 2017

Fedor LARINOV 2017

Yan LYUBIMOV 2017

Nikita MALYSHEV 2017

Maria PEL 2017

Aleksandr PROKOPOVICH 2017

Evgeniia SOZANKOVA 2017

Angelina TARLOVSKAIA 2018

Daria VINOGRADSKAYA 2017

Nataliia BABASHKINA 2018

Maria DUDENKOVA 2018

Zhanna DYAKONOVA 2018

Sofia EFREMOVA 2018

Hanna HORN 2018

Sofya MOKROUSOVA 2018

Ivan PEL 2018

Aleksandr RAMZAI 2018

Pavel STASHCHUK 2018

Anastasiya KAVERINA 2019

Daria Aleksandraovna IANCHIK 2019

Serafima LITVINENKO 2020 

Mariia KARACHEVA 2021

Anna SAFRONOVA 2021

Ulyana SIROTKINA 2021

Vasilisa POLISHCHUCK 2022

Aleksandra RUZAVINA 2022

SAUDI ARABIA

Ghada ALMUHANNA 2010

Shahd AL-KAF 2013

SRI LANKA

Imthishal MOHAMED 2015

Fathima MOHAMED ZAROOK 2015

Sehen Kilkush GAMHEWA 2019

Banupriya KADIRGAMASAMY 2019

Zahara Anver 2020 

Hesandi JAYASEKARA 2020 

Haritha SUGATHADASA 2021

Kritheeshwar SENTITCUMARAN 2021

Divansshi MUKUNTHAN 2022

SUDAN

Mustafa ELSHEIKH MUSTAFA 2014

SYRIA

Samar SALEH 2008

Jalal SIREES 2008

Edwar TARZI 2008

Lora ABAZA 2009

Yara ABOU FAKHER 2009

Sariah AL MIDANI 2011

Muhannad DARAJ 2014

TAJIKISTAN

Samandar SAMANDAROV 2020 

Azizakhon NAZAROVA 2021

Atoulloh SALIMOV 2022

TUNISIA

Roua SEGHAIER 2011

Hiba KAHOULI 2012

Youssef SMAOUI 2012

Cyrine AFRAOUI 2013

Imen BOUHESTIN 2014

Nada MAKHLOUF 2015

Islam Ben Ahmed BEN ABDELAZIZ 2016

Achref BENNANI 2020 

Sahar ZAR 2020 

TURKEY

Melis AKBAS 2015

Nur BASCI 2015

Befinsu KAZAKLI 2015

Büşra KEVRAN 2015

Onur OZTEMIR, 2022

UKRAINE

Roman KOLISHENKO 2020 

Pavlo KOROL 2020 

Varvara BORDYUG 2021

Oleksandra HOROPAKHA 2022

Iryna Oleksandrivna NESCHOTNA 2022

Doktor Dominika OLEKSZANDRIVNA 2022

Tetiana PAVLINA 2022

Khrystyna SAIKO 2022

Cennuo HU 2022

Oleksandra NIKANOVA 2022

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE)

Fatima ALARYANI 2018

Aisha ALNAQBI 2020 

Ghala ALNAQBI 2021

UNITED STATES (USA)

Audrey CLEAVER-BARTHOLOMEW 2012

Alyssa COKINIS 2012

Rhowen DALRYMPLE 2012

Camille DUNGY 2012

Billie FLAMING 2012

Ann HITT 2012

Marcus JACKSON 2012

Patricia KELLY 2012

Hannah MESHULAM 2012

Jacob OET 2012

Annie RYDLAND 2012

Margaret SHULTZ 2012

Mrianda ANTHONY 2013

Elizabeth BECKMAN 2013

Max GRANFIELD 2013

Isabella Jibilian 2013

Selina LIU 2013

Olivia MARTIN 2013

Jonathan SCOLARE 2013

Alec STECKHAN 2013

Elizabeth STILLINGHAGAN 2013

Heidi STOFER 2013

Chris CAMACHO 2013

Alex CHOI 2013

Grace COBB 2013

Sara GOLDMAN 2013

Zebulon HURST 2013

Ni’Shele JACKSON 2013

Lily KAIRIS 2013

Noah KIM 2013

Destiny MORRISON 2013

Caitlin PLATHE 2013

Maggie SULLIVAN 2013

Sadie WALTON 2013

McKenna COON 2014

Nicholas DATTA 2014

Dani LIPMAN 2014

Johnny LORENZANA 2014

Kerry LUO 2014

Katrina MANIRQUE 2014

Hannah MIAO 2014

Griffin NEAL 2014

Oksana SNELL 2014

Matias SOSO-WHEELOCK 2014

Jada THOMAS 2014

Raina WELLMAN 2014

Weston CLARK 2015

Margaret DAVEY 2015

Hanna HALL 2015

Somi JUN 2015

Deryn MIERLAK 2015

Brandon PAHL 2015

Nicola PREUSS 2015

Sarah SALTZMAN 2015

Annika SCHLESINGER 2015

Isabella SIMONETTI 2015

Jamie SOLOMON 2015

Paul STANTON 2015

Madeleine YATES 2015

Karlyn BOENS 2015

Megan BOTT 2015

Naomi Shilyanski 2015

Erica GUO 2015

Annabel SHU 2015

Sydni Taj WELLS 2015

Jayde FERNANDEZ 2015

Gwyneth FORSYTHE 2015

Claire ADLER 2015

Olivia ALGER 2015

Sam ANTHONY 2015

Melanie HERRMANN 2015

Allison HUANG 2015

Anna LANCE 2015

Maya MEADOWS-CLAUSSEN 2015

Grace MORSE 2015

Isaac BALL 2016

Camille CALDERA 2016

Vishwa CHITNIS 2016

Emily CLARKE 2016

Siri GANNHOLM 2016

Ellen HUGGINS 2016

Caitlin MCCORMICK 2016

Jennifer MARER 2016

Kyra MATSUDA 2016

Ian POWELL-PALM 2016

Lily SICKLES 2016

Grace WALTERS 2016

Amelia ANTHONY 2017

Darius CHRISTIANSEN 2017

Chloe GOTTLIEB 2017

Jeff GU 2017

Olivia HOWE 2017

Sara KAO 2017

Zain MURDOCK 2017

Em ODESSER 2017

Hannah PAHS 2017

Charles POTTER WEHR 2017

Kayla READO 2017

Hope ROGERS 2017

Katrina STARBIRD 2017

Sarah ISSEVER 2017

Yasmina BRAISH 2017

Maeve BRAMMER 2017

Grace CLEMENT 2017

Michael DAVIS 2017

Emma EDWARDS 2017

Victoria GONG 2017

Molouk HARP 2017

Asiya MOHAMMED 2017

Fadel MUTHANA 2017

Houra Sara SADEGHI 2017

Dija VINSON 2017

Lydia ABEDEEN 2018

Alexander CANLAS 2018

Isabella CAYETANO 2018

Sofia SCHUMAKER 2018

Shri IYENGAR 2018

Kavya JAIN 2018

Charlie KELLEY-PEGG 2018

Julia LARKIN 2018

Michael MCCARTHY 2018

Logan METZGER 2018

Jack REDING 2018

Kaila ROBERTSON 2018

Alice SILVA 2018

Sophie SWAN 2018

Abdullah ABDOUHASHIM 2019

Zeina ABOUSHAAR 2019

Ruba AHMED-ABDELMUTALAB 2019

Camille ALEXANDRE 2019

Alexis ANIKE 2019

Sita CONDE 2019

Calvin DEWITTE 2019

Jesse DICKERSIN 2019

Liaa FERNANDEZ 2019

Jocelyn GAO 2019

Kendyl GREEN 2019

Quan HARRIS-HOLLEY 2019

Ella HEDER 2019

Isabella JIANG 2019

Emma KAPLON 2019

Sierra LINDSEY-BISCELLO 2019

Elise MONSANTO 2019

Madeline MULLER 2019

Ayah MUSTAFA 2019

Bella NOUMBA 2019

Imaan PATEL 2019

Vitoria PEREZ 2019

Diana QING 2019

A’ssia RAI 2019

Saffiyah SACKOR 2019

Lia SCHARNAU 2019

Fiona SIEVERT 2019

Aidan SPURGETIS 2019

Mary-Kate WILSON 2019

Gracie ZHANG 2019

Maryam ALWAN 2020 

Miguel Betran CUESTA 2020 

Ian CAVANAUGH 2020 

David CHEN 2020 

John FREDERICKSON 2020 

Caroline GAO 2020 

Paris GITOBU 2020 

Hana HAFEEZ 2020 

Ethan Ji-hoon HAN 2020 

Mariam KHAN 2020 

Kevin Stanley KONG 2020 

Fiona KUBALAK 2020 

Harper Layne KUCIK 2020 

Catie KUEHL 2020 

Quinn LANDER 2020 

Danju Zoe LIU 2020 

Norma Mohamad MAKKI 2020 

Rebekah MITCHELL 2020 

Debkanya MITRA 2020 

Libby RIGGS 2020 

Madeleine RUSSELL 2020 

Judy SAAFEIN 2020 

Drew SHINOZAKI 2020 

Elizabeth SHVARTS 2020 

Zelda SIEGEL 2020 

Danielle Marie SIPP 2020 

Anya Jacqueline TANG 2020 

Ruth Catherine THOMAS 2020 

Eleanor WARD 2020 

Finn Otis YETPLÉ 2020 

Clara YUSTE-GOLOB 2020 

Matthew Daiqing ZHANG 2020

Bailey ANDERSON-KITA 2021

Andrew BARBER 2021

Nina BALLERSTEDT 2021

Grace CHAN 2021

Kathryn DAEMICKE 2021

Anna DAI-LIU 2021

Ayezah DAR 2021

Adele DONOVAN 2021

Anna FOX 2021

Brianna GONZALEZ ULLOA 2021

Yashaswi JAISHY 2021

Claire JIANG 2021

Emily JONES 2021

Charlotte JUDKINS 2021

Andrew KANG 2021

Courtney KIM 2021

Victoria KISHOIYIAN 2021

Victory LADIPO 2021

Natalia LASHLEY 2021

Aneesah LAWRENCE 2021

Spencer MADSEN 2021

Maude MALONE 2021

Kaden NZARO 2021

Ife OLATONA 2021

Joanna PETERS 2021

Ayman RAAKIN HAQUE 2021

Emily RIGHTER 2021

Maia ROOTHAAN 2021

Caeleigh STAMPER 2021

Neptune STEVENS 2021

Shue Ying Lauren TAN 2021

Abigail TENENBAUM 2021

Luke WILLIS 2021

Charlotte YEUNG 2021

Sophia ZHAO 2021 

Vivian ZHU 2021

Isabella VALENZUELA 2021

Charlie HALL 2022

Adele JOHNSTON 2022

Aarush JOSHI 2022

Jaylen McCULLOUGH 2022

Deju OLUWADIMIMU 2022

Tara VUPHAM 2022

Jessica WANG 2022

Kate ROWBERRY 2022

Julia FINKE 2022

Sahil GANDHI 2023

Elizabeth HSU 2023

Ankita JAIKUMAR 2023

Brynne O’HARE 2023

Sofia RASTELLI 2023

Alex SHILKROT 2023

Amari TAYLOR 2023

Isabella VICARI 2023

Mia WALKER 2023

Ava WONG 2023

Emma WONG 2023

YEMEN

Tamim AL-KADASI 2013

ZIMBABWE

Tanatsiwa DUBE 2023

Shamiso NYONI 2023

Happening Now

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

  • “I went to [Ayodhya] to think about what it means to be an Indian and a Hindu... ”  A new essay by critic and novelist Chandrahas Choudhury.

  • In the January 2024 iteration of the French/English non-fiction site Frictions, T J Benson writes about “Riding Afrobeats Across the World.” Also new, a next installment in the bilingual series featuring work by students from Paris VIII’s Creative Writing program and the University of Iowa’s NFW program.

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