Dr. Abdulaziz al Farsi, senior consultant and head of adult oncology at the Royal Hospital, passed away on Sunday after a long battle with illness.
Born in Shinas in 1976, Al Farsi was also an established novelist since 1998.
He won a number of awards for short stories in the Sultanate and other Gulf states.
He published his first novel “Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs in 2007, which was on the list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Booker) in its first edition.
In 2008, he published jointly with Suleiman al Maamari two books on culture – Close to the Sun (Conversations in the Omani Culture) and Not Far From the Moon (Conversations in the Omani Story)
Another joint novel with Suleiman Al Maamari titled ‘A Dog’s Death Certificate’ was published in 2017.
