Children's & YA
Phantom of Sabiba
by Latifa Labsir
Description
A compassionate novel which aims to foster a greater understanding of autism across all age groups, with a particular focus on children and younger readers. The novel depicts Hiba, who writes about her brother Raji’s experiences as an autistic boy and presents them to her class at school, inviting her peers to empathise with her family’s struggles and learn about the diverse manifestations of autism.
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Winner of the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Children’s Literature category.
Funding is available for translation of all literary and children’s titles that have won or have been shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Author Biography
Latifa Labsir is a Moroccan writer and academic, serving as a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Ben M’Sik, at Hassan II University of Casablanca. She is a member of the Semiotics and Literary & Artistic Discourse Analysis Laboratory and has participated in international conferences and judged prestigious literary awards. In 2020, Labsir was recognised as a woman leader in a selection made by Kennesaw State University in the US and Hassan II University. Her notable works include ‘The Phantom of Sabiba’ (2024), ‘Little Covid’ (2023), and ‘It Happens in That Room’ (2018). Under the literary and artistic critique genre, Labsir has published ‘A Woman’s Autobiography/Ambiguous Gender’ (2018) and ‘Life is Not Always Digital’ (2025).
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- Publisher Markaz Kitab
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2024
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