The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards

by | Apr 26, 2021 | Gist Corner

                    

The winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards have been announced. The  award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose “writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary, and social life.” The award is presented in different categories:  Cultural Personality of the Year, Children’s Literature, Young Author, Contribution to the Development of Nations, Translation, Literature, Literary and Art Criticism, Arab Culture in Other Languages, and Publishing and Technology. The award winners get a gold medal, a certificate of merit, and 750,000 dirhams.

Previous winners of the award include Ibrahim Abdelmeguid, Abbas Beydoun, Osama Alaysa, Abdel Rasheed Mahmoudi, Bensalem Himmich and Dr. Abderrezak Belagrouz, and Moncef Ouhaibi.

Here are the winners:

Literature:

  • Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat) by Egyptian writer Iman Mersal, published in 2019 by Al Kotob Khan Library

Children’s Literature:

  • Rehlat Fannan (An Artist’s Journey) by Tunisian author Mizouni Bannani, published by Dar Al Mua’nasa Publishing in 2020

Young Author:

  • Eshkalyat Al Thaat Al Saredah Fee Al Rwayah Al Nesaayah Al Saudiah (The Problems of the Narrated Self in the Saudi Feminist Novel (1999 – 2012) (Critical Study) by Dr. Asma Muqbil Awad Alahmadi, published by Arab Scientific Publishers Inc. in 2020

Arab Culture in Other Languages:

  • Arabic Oration: Art and Function by Tahera Qutbuddin (American) (Brill Publishers, 2019)

Translation:

  • Impostures by Al-Hariri, translated from Arabic to English by Michael Cooperson (American) (Library of Arabic Literature in 2020)

Prize for Literary and Art Criticism:

  • Massar al Tahdeeth fil Funoon al Tashkeeliyya men al Ursooma ela al Lawhah ( The Path of Modernisation in the Visual Arts: From Drawing to Painting) by Dr. Khelil Gouia

Prize for Contribution to the Development of Nations

  • Turath al Este’la Bayn al Folklore wal Majal al Dini (Legacy of Supremacy between Folklore and Religion) by Dr. Saeed El-Masri.

Publishing and Technology:

  • Dar Al Jadeed, Lebanon

The recipient of the Cultural Personality of the Year award will be announced in the coming weeks, ahead of the virtual ceremony for the 15th Sheikh Zayed Book Award, which will be held alongside the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in May.

Image Source: Egypt Today