Kahled Khalifa, one of Syria's famous contemporary writers, was born in Aleppo in 1964. He wrote various types of works for thity years after his law education. He won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2013 with his first novel, No Knives in the Kitchen of This City. It was also one of the finals in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2014. He became one of the finalists of  2008 International Prize for Arabic Fiction with In Praise of Hatred (2006), which he published after  his novels The Guard of Deception (1993) and The Gypsies' Notebooks (2000). After his novel, Death Is Hard Work, which took its place on the shelves in 2016, his latest novel No One Prayed Over Their Graves, published in 2019, also reached worldwide fame.