Ibrahim Alkoni

His first library book of stories was published in 1974, at that time he was studying philosophy at the renowned Maxim Gorky literature institute in Moscow; after that he worked as a journalist at the Libyan cultural institute there, and in Warsaw he worked for the cultural magazine as a journalist and editor. He moved to Switzerland in 1993 where he is living now.
Alkoni won many prizes in different countries and by 2007 he has published 80 books which have been translated into 35 languages, and now he is one of the most prolific Arabic novelist in this country.

The famous Libyan writter Ibrahim Alkoni was born in 1948 in Ghadamis oasis, which is located in the southern part of the Libyan desert and mainly occupied by Al Tuareg. He started learning Arabic when he was twelve in a school where he grew up.

I am studying a story of the longest climb these days