Libyan academic and novelist Najwa Binshatwan was born in 1970 in Ijdabla, Libya. Publishing her first poetry collection in 2002, she has since gone on to write three novels: "The Horses' Hair" (2007), "Orange Content" (2008), and "The Slave Pens" (2015), which was shortlisted for the 2017 IPAF prize.
