Complex sentence: In 2010, he was among the 39 best Arab writers under 40 selected for the Hay Festival Beirut39 Festival, and his first novel, "The Book of the Sultan's Seal", won the 2015 Banipal Seif Ghobash Prize for Paul Starkey's translation.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2010, he was among the 39 best Arab writers under 40 selected for the Hay Festival Beirut39 Festival. His first novel, "The Book of the Sultan's Seal", won the 2015 Banipal Seif Ghobash Prize for Paul Starkey's translation.