Abu Dhabi: 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 held a hybrid ceremony on Monday evening to honour the winners of its 15th edition. The ceremony was held on the sidelines of the 30th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre (Adnec) in the presence of a number of officials, writers and winners.
This year, the award has surpassed its former records for entries with a 23 per cent increase of submissions totaling 2,349 nominations. Since its launch in 2006, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award has inducted 106 winners and received 19,000 nominations from 71 countries for its nine categories. The Award’s total value is Dh7 million.
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Seven authors and researchers from Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and the US, as well as a publishing house from Lebanon, have been declared the winners of this year s Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
The winners will be formally awarded in a virtual ceremony ahead of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in May. They will each receive a gold medal, certificate of merit and a cash prize of Dh750,000.
The winners were selected from a pool of more than 2,300 submissions, the most the annual award has received since it was founded in 2007.
The winners
Egyptian writer Iman Mersal’s novel
ABU DHABI, 22nd April, 2021 (WAM) 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 has announced the winners of its 15th edition, the largest in its history in terms of submissions.
The award received 2,349 nominations in 2020/2021, an increase of 23 percent compared to the previous edition.
The list of prize winners, organised by the Abu Dhabi Centre for the.
The newly named Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners come from Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Lebanon.
Winners of the 15th annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2021 are, upper row from left, Iman Mersal of Egypt; Mizouni Bannani of Tunisia; Asma Bint Muqbel Bin Awad Al-Ahmadi of Saudi Arabia; and Michael Cooperson in the United States. And on the lower row from left, Khelil Gouia of Tunisia; Saeed El-Masry of Egypt; Tahera Qutbuddin of the United States; and Dar Al Jadeed in Lebanon
Chosen From a Record 2,349 Submissions
Today (April 22), the 15th annual iteration of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Abu Dhabi has announced its 2021 winners in its eight book categories.
The Zayed Award honors finalists in ‘Contribution to the Development of Nations’ and Literary and Art Criticism, six titles from Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Tunisia.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award secretary-general Dr. Ali Bin Tamim welcomes the invitational audience to the 2016 winners ceremony. Image: SZBA
Announcements of Winners Expected Soon
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Publishing Perspectives readers know, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award has made several releases of its 2021 shortlists in recent weeks.
From its nine categories, the first set of shortlists to be made public were in the categories of Literature, Children’s Literature, and Young Author. Winners will be eligible for translation funding, up to a total of approximately US$19,000 per title.