Saïd Khaitibi

is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and journalist born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He currently lives in Slovenia. He writes in Arabic and French. His novel Sarajevo Firewood was shortlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. His other novels include The Book of Errors (2018), Forty Years Waiting for Isabelle, which won the 2017 Katara Award for Arabic Novels, The Inflamed Gardens of the East (2015), a travel book about the Balkans, and the book Wedding Fire (2010) in which he has written extensively on raï music. The End of the Sahara won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, young author category, in 2023.