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The winners of the seventh session of the Arab world’s most sought-after prize, Sheikh Zayed Book Award , were announced yesterday.
The winners: Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad Mohammad Al Tayeb Cultural Personality of the Year, Elizabeth Kassab from Lebanon for Contribution to the Development of Nations’ Award; Adil Hadjami from Morocco for Young Author award, Tunisian Fat’hi Meskini for the Translation Award; Abdullah Ebrahim from Iraq for his work in the Literary and Art Criticism category and the British author Marina Warner for her work on Arab Culture in a non-Arabic language.
Additionally, the National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature in Kuwait received the award for Publishing and Technology.
The Awards for "Literature" and "Children’s Literature" were withheld for the seventh session as this year’s nominations in these categories did not meet the Award’s standards and criteria for winning.
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, started in 2007, is intended to promote education and creativity in Arab world.
The Award carries cash prizes totaling Dhs7 million - with each winner getting Dh750,000 (equivalent to USD 204,217,50) in all eight categories (including the Arab Culture in non- Arabic languages category), in addition to Dhs1 million for the Cultural Personality of the Year. The winners also receive a certificate of merit and a Gold Medal.
The seventh session witnessed a record of number of nominations totalling 1262 in all the Award’s nine categories - double the number of last session.
The winners will be honoured on April 28, 2013 in a grand award ceremony to be held at ADNEC.
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