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Najib Nasr is a Yemeni writer, critic, and academic living in Granada, Spain. Najib holds a doctorate in the Arabic language, majoring in grammar and linguistics, from the University of Sidi Mohamed bin Abdullah in Fez, Morocco (July 2018). Before that, he had completed a master's degree in the same speciality and the same university in 2012.

Career path
In 2016, Najib Nasr tried to write a novel while he was a doctoral student in the Kingdom of Morocco, where he outlined it but left it, he says, because of the concerns of study and scientific research. He returned to it later and began writing small stories, articles, and pages from time to time.

Najib Nasr is considered the first Yemeni novelist to win the Katara Prize in the category of unpublished novels, which is the fourth prize in the overall types of the award, which began with the critic and academic Abdul Hamid Al-Hussami receiving the Critical Studies Prize in the third session in 2017 for his critical study “Representation of Ibn Arabi in the Narrative Imagination.” And in the category of studies concerned with novel research and criticism, a second prize was added to Yemen, where the Yemeni critic and academic Alawi Ahmed Saleh Al-Maljami won, for his study “The Cultural Construction of the Novelist World: The Semiotics of the Possible World in the Novel of the Happy Land of Conspiracies by Wajdi Al-Ahdal”, making it the fourth prize for Yemen. Which culminated in 2019 with the winning of the novelist Habib Abd al-Rabb Soruri (residing in France) with the Prize for Arabic Published Novels for his novel "Revelation".

Awards
In the unpublished novel category, Najeeb Nasr won the Katara Cultural Village Award for his novel "Half a Human" in equal shares with Al-Azhar Al-Zind from Tunisia for the novel "Al-Natour". Saeed Al-Alam from Morocco for the novel "The Virgin of Granada: Love between Two Cities", and Salem Mahmoud Salem from Egypt for the novel "It Happened in Alexandria." Ghazi Hussein Al-Ali from Syria for the novel "A black Mercedes that cannot be missed - a national comedy." It is worth noting here that the Yemeni writer's victory came in the sixth session held under the supervision of the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science (ALECSO), which witnessed the most significant participation rate since its launch in 2014; Where the award received about 2,220 participants in its various branches, an increase of 370 participants from the fifth session.

After winning the award, Najib affirmed, "The general impression of any writer who wins a literary award, whatever it is, is motivating and encouraging to continue and continue the work, but that the award is the size of Katara, with its literary and cultural value, which makes happiness double, especially for a young man who has never published a novel." before. It does not have a prominent presence in the literary and cultural arena."

List of his works
A list of the most well-known works of Yemeni writer and critic Naguib Nasr:


 * half-human