Muneera Swar (Arabic: منيرة سوار; born 1975) is a Bahraini novelist and translator. Her book Jariya was a winner of the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel in 2015.

Muneera Swar was born in Bahrain in 1975.^[1][2] Her father is the Bahraini writer Aqil Sawar.^[2] She attended the University of Bahrain, where she studied English literature.^[1]

In 2006, Swar published a popular translation into Arabic of Jo Frost's book Supernanny.^[1] The following year she began writing fiction,^[3] and she published her first novel, Nisa’a al Mutaa, in 2008.^[1][2]

Her second novel, Hussein Al-Messenger, was released in 2012.^[1] Then, in 2014 she published her third novel, Jariya, which deals with race and identity in the Arab world.^[1][4] The following year, it was chosen as one of the winners of the inaugural Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, the only Bahraini work honored that year.^[1][5][6] Jariya was published in French translation as Courtisane in 2016.^[7]

In addition to her writing, Swar has worked as a graphic designer and in the Public Relations and Media Department of the Bahraini Ministry of Education.^[1][2]

• 2015, Katara Prize for Arabic Novel