• Oman Author Jokha Al Harthi won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for ‘Celestial Bodies’.
• It is the story of three sisters of a desert country confronting its slave-owning past and a complex modern world.
• She is the first Arabic-language writer to take the prize.
• She will split the 50,000 pounds or 64,000 US dollar purse with her UK-based translator, Marilyn Booth.