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In 2018, the short story collection No Windmills in Basra won the Al-Multaqa Prize for the Arabic short story. This is a description from the report of the Al-Multaqa Prize Jury: "The stories in Diaa Jubaili's collection vary in length from the very short to very long. They deal with the subjects of war by moving between reality and fantasy. With a sarcasm-laced narrative, he transforms the subject of war into a major introspective exercise on the significance of absurdity, nihilism, and a genuine desire to overcome the futility of death. The stories provide a reflection on the three wars of Iraq: the Iran-Iraq war, the 1991 Gulf War, and the 2003 American invasion, which set off a wave of extremism that is choking the country to this day."

Diaa has won literary awards for his writing in Arabic. In 2017, he won the seventh annual Tayeb Salih International Award for Creative Writing for his novel What To Do Without Calvino?. His short story collection, No Windmills in Basra, won the 2018 Al Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story. The large prize purse of USD$20,000 is to encourage the short story genre in the Arab world.

Diaa Jubaili (Arabic: ضياء جبيلي ‎, (Ḍīya Jubaylī); born 23 May 1977) is an Iraqi novelist and writer from the city of Basra.

Diaa was born in Iraq in 1977 in the city of Basra, where he is permanently based. He became a writer and novelist in an environment which did not afford him a traditional education and also writes articles about life in Iraq. An extensive reading of Western literature is an influence on his work. In his fiction writing, he focuses on questions of identity in Iraq as well as the tension between religion and nationalism.