The Spartan Court by Abdelouahab Aissaoui has won the 13th International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Aissaoui is the first Algerian to win the prize.
It is sponsored by the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi of the UAE.
The Prize is run with the support, as its mentor, of The Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT).