Category: Egypt
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 shortlists announced
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 shortlists were announced in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, March 3, 2025. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, publishers, and young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary, and social life. The categories awarded are…
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2025 shortlist announced
Ahmed Fal Al Din and Mohamed Samir Nada are on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2025 shortlist announced at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction rewards excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing while encouraging the readership of high-quality Arabic literature through the translation and publication…
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Ahmed Naji wins Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2024
Ahmed Naji’s novel Rotten Evidence won the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2024 on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is an annual award for published translations from Arabic of full-length works of imaginative and creative writing of literary merit and general interest worth £3,000. Established in 2006 by Banipal Magazine…
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2025 longlist announced
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2025 longlist was announced on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the most prestigious literary prize in the Arab world. The prize worth US$50,000 aims to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature internationally through…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 longlists announced
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 longlists in four categories were announced in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, December 6, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book 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…
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Ibrahim El Moallem is International Publishing Association Champion
Ibrahim El Moallem was proclaimed an International Publishing Association Champion in Guadalajara, Mexico on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. The International Publishers Association (IPA) is the world’s largest federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers’ associations founded in 1896. It organizes the International Publishers Congress, a platform for networking and discussion among the world’s publishers on…
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Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2024 shortlist announced.
The Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2024 shortlist was announced on Monday, December 2, 2024. The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is an annual award for published translations from Arabic of full-length works of imaginative and creative writing of literary merit and general interest worth £3,000. Established in 2006 by Banipal Magazine and the Banipal…
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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2025 nominees announced
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2025 nominees were announced in Sweden on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Here are the writers, illustrators, storytellers, reading promoters, and organisations of African descent in the running. Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays best known for several children’s book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga,…
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Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Arundhati Roy share Pen Pinter Prize 2024
Alaa Abd el-Fattah was selected by PEN Pinter Prize 2024 winner Arundhati Roy to be this year’s co-winner in London, UK on Thursday, October 10, 2024. The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland, or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize-winning speech,…
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Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2024 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2024 was announced on Friday, August 30, 2024. The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is a literary award for Arabic literature given to the best contemporary novel written in Arabic, but not available in English translation. The winning book is translated into English, and published by…
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Book Digest: Djaïli Amadou Amal, Ahmed Naji, Charles Siboto
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Ahmed Naji, Charles Siboto, and Djaïli Amadou Amal. Egypt + 100 Stories from a Century after Tahrir Edited by Ahmed Naji Publisher: Comma PressDate: July 25, 2025Genre: Fiction, AnthologyLanguage: English (Translation from Arabic)Where to find it: Comma Press…
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English PEN Translates 2024 winners announced
Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Osvalde Lewat, and Shady Lewis are among the PEN Translates winners announced on Sunday, July 14, 2024. PEN Translates, with support from Arts Council England, has encouraged UK publishers to acquire more books from other languages since 2012. The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works…
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Iman Mersal wins James Tait Black Prize 2024
Iman Mersal’s biography Traces of Enayat, translated by Robin Moger, won the James Tait Black Prize 2024 on Friday, May 17, 2024. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded for literature written in the English language, are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, were founded by Janet…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2024 winners announced.
Reem Bassiouney, Dr Houssem Eddine Chachia, and Dr Ahmed Somai won at the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2024 on Thursday, April 4, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book 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…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 were announced on Thursday, March 7, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book 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 categories handed out…