Portrait of a slightly older man wearing glasses and a cap and looking into the kmera.

Ibrahim al-Koni

Ibrahim al-Koni is a Libyan writer. Almost all of al-Koni's publications are about the desert, the magical place where he grew up in the 1950s as the child of a Tuareg family. To this date, al-Koni has published a total of 91 novels, essays and collections of aphorisms.

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