Bushra Khalfan Author

Bushra Khalfan is an Omani novelist and short-story writer whose work explores the social and historical textures of Omani life. Marked by formal restraint and psychological depth, her fiction attends closely to questions of land, labour, and belonging. The Garden We Carry is translated by Luke Leafgren, an award-winning translator of Arabic literature into English, known for bringing clarity, precision, and literary sensitivity to contemporary Arabic fiction.