Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Palestinian poet, novelist, painter, and photographer. He was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1954 to parents uprooted from their home in Palestine in 1948. To date, Nasrallah has published 14 poetry collections, 2 books of film criticism, and 24 novels, 14 of which make up his epic Palestinian Tragicomedy series covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history. He has won many awards and honors, among them the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (The Arabic Booker) in 2018, the Palestine Prize in 2022, and the Grand Prize for the Novel from the Turkish Authors’ Association in 2023. Nasrallah is the only two-time winner of the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels: in 2016 for his novel The Spirits of Kilimanjaro and in 2020 for his novel A Tank Under the Christmas Tree.