Khaled Khalifa (1964-2023) wrote numerous screenplays and several novels, including Death Is Hard Work, finalist for the National Book Award, In Praise of Hatred, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and No Knives in the Kitchens of This City, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013. He was born in a village close to Aleppo, Syria.
