Jana Elhassan

Jana Elhassan (born 1985) is a Lebanese award-winning novelist and short story writer from Lebanon. She has worked as a journalist for leading newspapers and TV since 2008. Her first novel won the Simon Hayek Award and both her second novel "Me, She and Other women," and third novel were shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction. The Ninety Ninth Floor is her third novel and the first to be translated into English.
In 2015, Jana Elhassan was listed among the BBC's 100women, a two week season featuring inspiring women around the world.