Soukaina Habiballah

Moroccan poet and novelist born in Casablanca in 1989. She is the author of four collections of poetry, a novel and a collection of short stories. She has received several awards, including the 2015 Buland Al Haidari Prize for Arabic Poetry and the 2019 Nadine Shams Prize for Arab Screenwriters for her short film Who Left the Door Open? She is a two-time winner of the Creative Writing Fund AFAC. Her poems have been translated into French, English, German and Spanish.