The time of women

Zaman Al-Nisa (Women’s Time) is the first work translated directly from Russian in the series of awards since its first edition in 2005. It is also the first work translated into Arabic by the writer Yelena Chizhova, whose two novels "The Criminal" and "The Monastery" were shortlisted for the Russian Booker in 2003 and 2005, before her latest novel won the prize in 2009. "Women’s Time" gained fame in Russia and Russian-speaking countries, where it features many artistic elements that made it the best novel in Russian in 2009, the best-selling, and awarded the International Booker Prize for Russian fiction in the same year. Yelena Chizhova, born in 1957, is considered one of the most important contemporary Russian writers. In addition to her novel "Women’s Time," her two novels "The Criminal" and "The Great Monastery" were also shortlisted for the same prize in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Her style is characterized by features and qualities that represent postmodernism, which is evident in the works of many contemporary Russian women writers.