International Prize for Arabic Fiction
In 2013, his novel, "Al-Qundus", was shortlisted in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013). In 2015, Alwan won the Arab World Institute's Prix de la Littérature Arabe for "Al-Qundus", translated to French by Stéphanie Dujols as "Le castor". It was considered the best novel to be translated into French in 2015. In 2017, he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for "A Small Death", a novel about Ibn Arabi.