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About sheikh zayed book award sheikh zayed book award. Abu dhabi the sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds most prestigious and lucrative literary prizes, has announced the winners of its 14th edition across seven key categories. The program will highlight abu dhabis cultural mandate and its role in supporting the book industry in the region, in line with the sheikh zayed book award s efforts to reach out to international audiences and promote the award s objectives at cultural gatherings around the world. The sheikh zayed book awards, among the most esteemed and lucrative literary prizes in the arab world, recognized winners across seven categories today. The sheikh zayed book award recognizes cultural achievements in a range of categories, including. The annual sheikh zayed book award has been referred to as the arab worlds equivalent to the nobel prize, and recognises work from the. Abu dhabi, 17th april, 2020 wam held under the patronage of his highness sheikh mohamed bin zayed al nahyan, crown prince of abu dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the uae armed forces, the sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds most prestigious and lucrative literary prizes, held a virtual livestream ceremony yesterday evening to honour the winners of its 14th edition. Past winners of the sheikh zayed book awards litprom. The award bears the name of late sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan, founder of the united arab emirates uae and a visionary statesman, who dedicated his life to laying a solid foundation for a progressive society that benefits everyone, placing considerable value on human capital and investing heavily in healthcare in the uae and elsewhere. Sheikh zayed book awards lauds winners virtually arts. The most prominent of the prizes the literature award went to acclaimed tunisian poet and novelist moncef ouhaibi for his collection.
Sheikh zayed book award approves 14th edition winners news. Tunisian poet moncef ouhaibi won the literature prize at the prestigious emirati literary awards sheikh zayed book awards szba 20192020 which celebrate their 14th edition. Winners of the sheikh zayed book award for this year has been announced. Here are the winners of the sheikh zayed book awards, one. Literature was awarded to tunisian poet moncef ouhaibi for his book belkas ma qabl al akheera the penultimate cup published by meskeliani publishing and distribution tunisia in 2019. His eldest brother, sheikh shakhbut bin sultan al nahyan, became ruler of abu dhabi after their uncle, saqr bin zayed al nahyan, his mother was sheikha salama bint butti.
Apr 08, 2020 from the press release, detail of the the 2020 sheikh zayed book award winners. Sheikh zayed book award announces 2020 winners of one of. Discussing arabic literature with sheikh zayed book award. Restoring womens voices to mainstream arab literature. The annual sheikh zayed book award has been referred to as the arab worlds equivalent to the nobel prize, and recognises work from the region, including both literary and scholarly works. The two categories with the highest number of nominations were young author 498 nominations followed by literature 438 nominations. A recordbreaking year for submissions saw seven awards go to recipients hailing from six countries.
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Sheikh zayed book award department of culture and tourism. The 2020 sheikh zayed book award winners literature was awarded to tunisian poet, moncef ouhaibi, for his book, belkas ma qabl al akheera the penultimate cup, published by meskeliani publishing and distribution tunisia in2019. Apr 08, 2020 organizers of the sheikh zayed book award szba today announced the winners in seven categories of their 14th annual prize. Winners of sheikh zayed book awards announced gulftoday. The sheikh zayed book award announces shortlists and readies a special program at london book fair on the impact of literature prizes on translation. Sheikh zayed book award announces its cultural program for. In a recordbreaking year for submissions, the awards will go to recipients from six different countries the. Sheikh zayed book award approves 14th edition winners.
Emirates news agency sheikh zayed book award honours. Sheikh zayed book award winners announced uae gulf news. The sheikh zayed book award commemorates the late sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan, founding president of the uae and ruler of abu dhabi, and his pioneering. Abu dhabi, march 7, 2018 the sheikh zayed book award has announced the shortlisted works contending to win the prize across its categories, out of a total of 1,191 nominations received in the award s 12th edition 20172018.
Sheikh zayed book award honours 2020 winners with virtual ceremony. Winners of the 2020 sheikh zayed book award announced the. These awards acknowledge literary and academic work, and the 2020 winners come from six countries. Sheikh zayed book awards recent winner nyu abu dhabi. A recordbreaking year for submissions saw seven awards go to recipients of six countries uk, us, the netherlands. The sessionhosed by the sheikh zayed book award translation fundwill be moderated by daniel hahn, the ukbased translator, well known to publishing perspectives readers not only for his work as an author and translator but also as the creator of the uks ta first translation prize that awards both the translator and the editor of a debut translation effort. Apr 08, 2020 the sheikh zayed book awards, among the most esteemed and lucrative literary prizes in the arab world, recognized winners across seven categories today. Mar 19, 2020 a total of 1,900 nominations from 49 countries 22 arab and 27 foreign countries were submitted for the 14th sheikh zayed book award across its nine categories. Sheikh zayed book award announces 2020 winners zawya. Moroccan literature dominates competition for sheikh zayed. Founded in 1999 by uae vice president, prime minister and ruler of dubai his highness sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum, the zayed international prize for the environment is meant to recognize and encourage environmental achievements supporting and promoting the implementation of agenda 21, millennium development goals mdgs.
Winners of the 2020 sheikh zayed book award were announced on wednesday. Winners in the other categories will receive a gold medal, a certificate of merit, and a monetary award of dhs750,000. Welcome to zayed international foundation for the environment. Mar 17, 2019 the sheikh zayed book award cultural personality of the year will be named and announced soon, with the winner receiving an inscribed gold medal, a certificate of merit, and a 1 milliondirham monetary award. The sheikh zayed book award 2020 warmly invites you to a livestream presentation ceremony of the winners in its 14th edition, via the award s youtube channel and. The board of trustees of the sheikh zayed book award has approved the list of winners for the fourteenth edition 2019 2020, put forward by the awards scientific committee. The sheikh zayed book award commemorates the late sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan, founding president of the uae and ruler of abu dhabi, and his.
Today, the winners of the 2020 sheikh zayed book award were announced, despite the awards ceremony not going ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic. The total value of the prizes is dh 7,000,000 making it one of the richest literary awards in the world. Now in its th edition, the annual sheikh zayed book award is presented to outstanding writers, intellectuals, and publishers, as well as emerging talents whose writing and translation in the humanities field enriches arab intellectual, cultural, literary, and social life. Zayed was the youngest of four sons of sheikh sultan bin khalifa al nahyan.
The sheikh zayed book award has chosen this years winning authors, despite the prize giving ceremony not going ahead. The sheikh zayed book award to announce winners despite. The winners of the lucrative 2020 sheikh zayed book award have been announced, with literary uk banipal magazine winning the publishing and. The sheikh zayed book award is one of the most prestigious and wellfunded prizes in the arab world. The shared mission of furthering arabic culture w hile the winners of the 14th edition of the sheikh zayed book award were to have been announced on april 16 in conjunction with the abu dhabi international book fair, those plans, of course, have been derailed by the pandemic of the coronavirus covid19. Here are the winners of the sheikh zayed book awards, one of. Winners of the 2020 sheikh zayed book award announced. Zayed university member wins prestigious sheikh zayed book. The sheikh zayed book award honours the outstanding achievements of innovators and thinkers in literature, the arts and humanities in arabic and other. The sheikh zayed book award is one of the bestfunded prizes presented yearly to those whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly. The award was established in memory of sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan, the principal architect of united arab emirates, the ruler of abu dhabi and president of the uae for over 30 years 19712004. The last post published in 2014 by al dar al masriah al lubnaniah. Rabat seven moroccan literary works are set to compete in the 14th annual sheikh zayed book award, one of the most prestigious prizes in the arabicspeaking world of the 411 books submitted.
The award is presented every year to outstanding writers, intellectuals, and publishers, as well as to young authors who have contributed to the enrichment of arab literature through their written and translated works. Lo sheikh zayed book award premia i vincitori del 2020 in una cerimonia virtuale. The sheikh zayed book award is an independent cultural initiative administered by department of culture and tourism abu dhabi. The sheikh zayed book award is dedicated to arabic literature and culture, and, has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding work and individuals in the fields of literature, academia and publishing since 2006. Sheikh zayed book awards translation fund grants international publishers with funding to translate szbawinning literary and childrens titles into other.
Join us here at 5pm uae 1pm gmt on thu 16th april as we present the winners of the sheikh zayed book award 2020. You can watch her tedx talk about her transformative and crosscultural love for language songs of my foreign accent on youtube. Slated to run in april as part of the already cancelled abu dhabi. One of the first publishing industry casualties in the middle east was the abu dhabi international book fair, where it had been planned to announce and present prizes to the winners of the prestigious sheikh zayed book awards and also the international prize for arabic fiction. Sheikh zayed book award s shortlisted 2018 abu dhabi, march 7, 2018 the sheikh zayed book award has announced the shortlisted works contending to win the prize across its categories, out of a total of 1,191 nominations received in the award s 12th edition 20172018. The sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds most prestigious and lucrative literary prizes, has announced the winners of its 14th edition across seven key categories. Sheikh zayed book award winners announced despite lack of. Founded in memory of the great cultural unifier late sheikh zayed bin sultan al. Apr 15, 2020 culture sheikh zayed book awards lauds winners virtually. Sheikh zayed book award announces 2020 winners zawya mena. Held under the patronage of his highness sheikh mohamed bin zayed al nahyan, crown prince of abu dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the uae armed forces, the sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds most prestigious and lucrative literary prizes, held a virtual livestream ceremony yesterd. Launched in 2006 and covering nine categories, the award promotes creativity, advances arabic literature and culture, and provides new opportunities for arabiclanguage writers. The sheikh zayed book award is in the process of testing one of literatures most fundamental questions. Held under the patronage of his highness sheikh mohammed bin zayed al nahyan, crown prince of abu dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the uae armed forces, the sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds mos.
Apr 16, 2020 join us here at 5pm uae 1pm gmt on thu 16th april as we present the winners of the sheikh zayed book award 2020. She won a 2020 sheikh zayed book award for illustrated childrens book alfatah allaylakeyyah the lilac girl, her sixth book for younger readers. Mar 18, 2019 nyu abu dhabi nyuad professor of middle eastern and islamic studies, and comparative literature philip kennedy has been announced as the winner of the sheikh zayed book award s arab culture in other languages category for his book recognition in the arabic narrative tradition edinburgh university press, 2016. His father was the ruler of abu dhabi from 1922 until his death in 1926. Organizers of the sheikh zayed book award szba today announced the winners in seven categories of their 14th annual prize. The six categories for which the shortlists have been announced are young author, literature, childrens literature, publishing and technology, translation, and arabic culture in other languages. Sheikh zayed book award winners to be announced next month. Writers from the arab world and beyond are honored today by the 2020 sheikh zayed book award, the worlds most lucrative award for arabic. The winners of the 2020 sheikh zayed book award have been announced, with the uks banipul magazine among the seven category winners. Sheikh zayed book award honours 2020 winners at virtual. The sheikh zayed book award is one of the bestfunded prizes presented yearly to those whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched arab cultural, literary. Arabic culture in other languages, childrens literature, contribution to the development of nations, cultural personality of the year, literary and art criticism, literature, publishing and technology, translation, and young author.
Apr 08, 2020 the winners of the 2020 sheikh zayed book award have been announced, with the uks banipal magazine among the seven category winners. Here are the winners of the sheikh zayed book awards, one of the. It is presented yearly to arab writers, intellectuals. The program will highlight abu dhabis cultural mandate and its role in supporting the book industry in the region, in line with the sheikh zayed book awards efforts to reach out to international audiences and promote the awards objectives at cultural gatherings around the world. Moroccan novelist wins the 2019 sheikh zayed book award. In a recordbreaking year for submissions, the awards will go to recipients from six different countries the united ki. The zayed sustainability prize, an evolution of the zayed future energy prize, is the uaes pioneering global award in sustainability and a tribute to the legacy of the late founding father of the uae, sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan.
Abu dhabi, pakistan point news 17th apr, 2020 held under the patronage of his highness sheikh mohamed bin zayed al nahyan, crown prince of abu dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the uae armed forces, the sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds most prestigious and lucrative literary prizes, held a virtual livestream ceremony yesterday evening to honour the winners of its 14th. Apr 19, 2020 check out the books which won this time. In the words of this years childrens literature winner ibtisam barakat, the sheikh zayed book award is the arab world s equivalent to the nobel prize. It is presented yearly to arab writers, intellectuals, publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched arab cultural, literary and social life. Writers from the arab world and beyond are honored today by the 2020 sheikh zayed book award, the worlds most lucrative award for arabic literature. The sheikh zayed book award was established in memory of the late sheikh zayed bin sultan al nahyan. The board of trustees of the sheikh zayed book award has approved the list of winners for the fourteenth edition 2019 2020, put forward by the award s scientific committee. Abu dhabi, 17th april, 2020 wam held under the patronage of his highness sheikh mohamed bin zayed al nahyan, crown prince of abu dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the uae armed forces, the sheikh zayed book award, one of the arab worlds most prestigious and lucrative literary prizes, held a virtual livestream ceremony yesterday evening to honour the winners of its 14th.
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