Yasmina Jraissati

is the founder of the RAYA Agency. Authors represented by the literary agency have won, or have been shortlisted for, international prizes and literary awards. Together with its partners, RAYA has sold books in over twenty languages. Jraissati was shortlisted twice for the London Book Fair Excellence Awards in the literary agent category. In 2023, she received the Sharjah Rights Connection Award, in the individual agents category, from the Sharjah International Book Fair. Her work has been praised for “boosting cross-cultural literature and diversifying publishing.”