Category: Mauritania
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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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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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Mbarek Ould Beyrouk wins Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023
Mbarek Ould Beyrouk’s novel Saara was declared the winner of Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023 on Thursday, February 29, 2024. Prix Littéraire Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic, or historical issue related to Africa or its…
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Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023 has been announced today, Monday, November 27, 2023. Prix Littéraire Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic, or historical issue related to Africa or its diaspora. Prix Les Afriques,…
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Prix du Roman Métis des Lecteurs 2023 finalists announced
The finalists for the Prix du Roman Métis des Lecteurs 2023 were announced on Thursday, October 19, 2023. The Grand Prix du Roman Métis is an international literary prize awarded every year by the city of Saint-Denis in Reunion since 2010. It rewards a French-language novel highlighting the values of cross-breeding, diversity, and humanism. Since…
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Festival International de Littérature de Dakar 2023 winners announced.
Khalil Diallo, Tanella Boni, and Mbarek Ould Beyrouk won at the Festival International de Littérature de Dakar 2023 in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, July 29, 2023. In 2022, Festival International de Littérature de Dakar (Filid) (English: Dakar International Literary Festival) made its debut in venues in Senegal. It was attended by writers, literary critics, publishers,…
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini to curate African Book Festival Berlin 2023
Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini, the new curator of the African Book Festival Berlin 2023 which runs from August 25-27, has been revealed today. In 2018, many of the leading African writers, poets, and thinkers on the continent and in the diaspora converged on Berlin, Germany for the African Book Festival. It has gone on to…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2022 literature longlist revealed.
Writers from Egypt, Morocco, and Mauritania made the longlist in literature for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2022 revealed on December 7, 2021. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented yearly to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural,…
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African writers among Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2021 finalists
Leïla Bahsaïn, Beyrouk, and Samir Kacimi are finalists at the Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2021 announced on Wednesday, September 8, 2021. The Prix de la Littérature Arabe, created in 2013 by the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the Institut Du Monde Arabe, is awarded to a writer, a national of a member country of the…
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African authors feature on Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2017 Longlist
There are five African authors on the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2017 Longlist which was announced on November 7, 2017. They are Mahmoud al-Werwary, Ezzat el-Kamhawi, Ibrahim Eissa, Ahmad Hafid, and Hassouna Mosbahi. The Sheikh Zayed Book award is an independent cultural award administered by Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, with a total monetary…