Jana Elhassan

Career

She has worked as a journalist for leading newspapers and television since 2008. The Ninety Ninth Floor is her third novel and the first to be translated into English. In 2015, Jana Elhassan was listed among the British Broadcasting Corporation"s 100women, a two week season featuring inspiring women around the world.

Achievements

• Her first novel won the Simon Hayek Award and both her second novel "Maine, She and Other women," and third novel were shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction.