Badriya Albadri

Badriya al-Badri is an Omani author. She was born in Muscat in 1975.

Omani poet Badria al-Badri , Bayt al-Qasida program, Alrafidain TV - Aug 19, 2019

She writes in a variety of genres: classical and contemporary Arabic poetry, fiction for adults and children, writings for magazines and TV. Her work has appeared in many Arabic-language outlets. She is a long-time contributor to the children's magazine Murshid, and she is also a scriptwriter for children's TV.

Al-Badri took part in the IPAF Nadwa literary workshop in 2017. In 2024, her novel Foumbi was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize.^[1][2] She has also won a number of literary prizes for her work.

In translation, her writing has appeared in Arablit Quarterly and Writers Without Borders.^[3][4] Her novel The Last Crossing was translated into English by Katherine Van De Vate and came out in 2024.^[5]

Selected works

• Narrow Valley (2018, poetry)
• Closer to the Waving of a Poem (2019, poetry)
• Behind Loss (2015, novel)
• The Last Crossing (2017, novel)
• The Shadow of Hermaphroditus (2018, novel)
• Foumbi (2022, novel)
• Smoothie, the Adventurer (2021, children's book)
• The Scarecrow (2021, children's book)