Zahran Alqasmi: An Omani poet and novelist, he was born in Dima Wattayeen in the Sultanate of Oman in 1974 AD. He has many poetic and fictional works and literary texts. Among his most prominent publications is the novel (The Sniper), which won the Cultural Creativity Award from The Omani Society for wrieters & literati in 2015, and the novel (تغريبة القافر), which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2023. He is the first Omani novelist to receive this award.