Country: Chad

Year of Birth: 1990

A journalist and novelist from Chad, Tahir Annour was trained as a lawyer.
He was the editor of N’djaména Aldjadida and worked in the Department of Justice. He now serves as a communications editor at the Sharjah Children Foundation. He currently lives in the UAE.

Tahir Annour received a special mention for the Ibn Battuta Prize for Travel Literature, in the diaries category, in 2024, for An African in Palestine.

He is also the winner of the Tawfiq Bakkar Award for the Arabic Novel in Tunisia, for Qudala; and the recipient of the King Faisal Short Story Prize, for Gold Earth (2015, Chad)