The winners of the Sawiris Cultural Awards 2024 were revealed in Cairo, Egypt on Monday, January 8, 2023.
The Sawiris Cultural Award, one of the richest on the continent with winners going home with around 1.5 million Egyptian pounds in total, was founded in 2005. The awards are handed out in the categories of novels, short story collections, books for children under the age of 12, screenplays, playwrights, and in the field of literary criticism and nonfiction. Some of the winners last year were Adel Asaad Merry, Muhammed Abu Zaid, Osama Habashi and Mohamed Abdel Nabi. Some of the winners in 2017 were Youssef Rakha, Saad Abdel-Fattah, Said Nouh, Samar Nour, Ali Sayed, Mohamed Abdel-Naby, and Eissa Gamal.
The 2024 edition of the awards are here with the announcement of the shortlists on Sunday, December 18 before the winners were made public. They are;
Fiction
- Senior
Jury: Professor Dr. Marie Therese Abdel Masih (committee rapporteur), Dr. Ahmed Hani Al-Shami, Professor Dr. Anwar Mugheeth, writer Professor Sherif Al-Asfouri, writer Professor Nadia Kamel
Winner: Dancing Camels, Fathi Embabi (Egyptian General Book Authority)
- Emerging
Jury: Journalist, Mr. Muhammad Shair (committee rapporteur), novelist, Mr. Hassan Abdel Mawjoud, journalist, Ms. Rasha Qandil, writer, Mr. Omar Taher, journalist, Ms. Noura Younes.
Winner: Happy Endings, Ahmed Naji
Short Story Collection
- This Is Not Your Room, Karim Mohsen
Playwright
- Withheld
Read more about the winners by clicking here.
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