Yahya Yakhlif (Arabic: يحيى يخلف) (born 1944) is a Palestinian writer and a novelist.
[2] As an author and novelist, Yakhlif has published several novels and short story collections.
His novel about the last days of Samakh, A Lake Beyond the Wind, was translated into English by Christopher Tingley and May Jayyusi and published by Interlink Books in 1998 in its Emerging Voices series.
Ma' Al Sama, a more recent novel, also explores the condition of Palestinian exile.
Ma' Al Sama was nominated for the 2009 Arabic Booker Prize.