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International Prize For Arabic Fiction
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ( ar, الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high quality Arabic literature internationally through the translation and publication of winning and shortlisted novels in other major languages. In addition to the prize itself, IPAF supports other literary initiatives. In 2009, IPAF launched its inaugural Nadwa (writers’ workshop) for emerging writers of fiction in Arabic. The prize is administered by the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and is currently funded by Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT). Each year, the winner of the prize receives US$50,000, and the six shortlisted authors receive US$10,000 each. Rules and entry Full Rules of Entry are available to viehere Trustees * Yasir Suleiman CBE, Profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Language
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is the language of literature, official documents, and formal written m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaki Nusseibeh
Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh is the Cultural Adviser to the President of the UAE and the Chancellor of UAE University. He has been active in government service in the United Arab Emirates since its formation in 1971, and with the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi since 1968. Before his current role, Nusseibeh served as Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2017-2021), where he contributed to the establishment and management of the Office of Public and Cultural Diplomacy, as a coordinating body committed to international cooperation through cross-cultural dialogue and exchange through the promotion of UAE arts and culture abroad. He previously served as Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Cultural Advisor at the UAE Presidential Court, later Ministry of Presidential Affairs. From the late 1960s, he acted as the personal interpreter and adviser to the founder of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. He then acted in the same role with his su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inaam Kachachi
Inaam Kachachi (Arabic:انعام كجه جي; born 1952) is an Iraqi journalist and author. Inaam is an Iraqi writer, born in Baghdad in 1952. She studied journalism at Baghdad University, working in Iraqi press and radio before moving to Paris to complete a PhD at the Sorbonne. She is currently the Paris correspondent for London-based newspaper ''Asharq Al-Awsat'' and ''Kol Al-Usra'' magazine in Sharjah, UAE. Kachachi has published a biography, ''Lorna'', about the British journalist Lorna Hales, who was married to the famous pioneering Iraqi sculptor Jawad Salim, and a book in French about Iraqi women's literature produced in times of war. She produced and directed a documentary about Naziha Al Dulaimi, the first woman to become minister of an Arab country, in 1959. Her first novel ''Heart Springs'' appeared in 2005 and her second novel ''The American Granddaughter'', was shortlisted for IPAF in 2009. An English translation of the novel was published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youssef Ziedan
Youssef Ziedan ( ar, يوسف زيدان) (born June 30, 1958) is an Egyptian writer and scholar who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies. He is a public lecturer, columnist, and prolific author of more than 50 books. He is also director of the Manuscript Center and Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. His primary scholarly interests are in cataloguing, editing, and publishing Arabic and Islamic manuscripts. He has worked as a consultant in the field of Arabic heritage preservation and conservation in a number of international institutions, including UNESCO, ESCWA, and the Arab League, and has also directed a number of projects aimed at the identification and preservation of Arabic manuscript heritage. Biography Ziedan was born in Sohag, Egypt in 1958. He moved with his grandfather to Alexandria when he was still a child and was raised and taught there. He joined the philosophy department at the University of Alexandria and graduated ''summa cum laude''. His postgradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mekkaoui Said
Mekkawi Said ( ar, مكاوي سعيد; 6 July 1956 – 2 December 2017) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Early life He studied at Cairo University. He worked as a scriptwriter and publisher, operating the Al-Dar publishing house in Cairo. Career Said published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 1981. Since then, he has published several more short story collections and two novels. His second novel ''Cairo Swan Song'' was a bestseller and was nominated for the inaugural Arabic Booker Prize in 2008. The novel has also been translated into English by Adam Talib and published by the AUC Press The American University in Cairo Press (AUCP, AUC Press) is the leading English-language publisher in the Middle East. The largest translator of Arabic literature in the world, AUC Press has a reputation for carefully selecting and translating t .... Awards and honors Said was a recipient of the Egyptian State Prize for Literature. References 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Menassa
May Menassa ( ar, مي منسى; 20 July 1939 - 19 January 2019) was a Lebanese journalist, writer, editor-in-chief, critic and translator, best known as the author of ''Walking in the Dust'' and ''I Killed My Mother in Order to Live''. She was the first woman to enter the Lebanese television business and joined the only public television network at the time Télé Liban. She wrote a lot of articles and about ten novels. Early life May Menassa was born 1939 in Beirut, Lebanon, in a Maronite Christian family. She is the sister of the Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata and cousin of Latifé Moultaka and Zad Moultaka. Her father was strict but cultivated. He used to read books such as Les Misérables by Victor Hugo to his children before they go to sleep. She studied French Literature at university before perusing a career in journalism. She became a novelist and a journalist. She only married once and had a son, Walid Menassa, before getting a divorce later on. May Menassa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaled Khalifa
Khaled Khalifa (born 1964) ( ar, خالد خليفة, sometimes in English written as Khalid Khalifa) is a Syrian novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He has been nominated three times for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, including being shortlisted twice. His works have often been critical of the Syrian Baathist government and thus have been banned in the country. Biography Khalifa was born in Aleppo in 1964. He attended the University of Aleppo, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in law. He wrote poetry and was a member of the Literary Forum there. As a screenwriter, Khalifa has written several television dramas, including ''Rainbow (Kaws Kozah)'' and ''Memoirs of Al-Jalali (Serat Al-Jalali)'', plus various documentaries, short films, and the feature-length film ''The Shrine Door (Bab al-Maqam)''. His first novel, ''Haris al-Khadi'a'' ("The Guard of Deception"), was published in 1993. His second novel, ''Dafatir al-Qurbat'' ("The Gypsy Notebooks"), was suppressed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Farkouh
Elias Farkouh (Arabic: إلياس فركوح) (1948 – July 15, 2020) was a Jordanian short story writer and novelist. He was born in Amman in 1948 and was educated in Amman and East Jerusalem. He graduated from the Arab University of Beirut where he read philosophy and psychology. He worked as a journalist in the early part of his career. After working at the publishing house Al-Manarat, he set up his own house Dar Azminah in 1991 and ran it until his death. Work Elias Farkouh published a number of short story collections and novels. His 2007 novel ''The Land of Purgatory'' was nominated for the inaugural Arabic Booker Prize, while his first novel ''Columns of Foam'' (1987) was selected as one of the 100 best Arabic novels of the 20th century by the Arab Writers' Union. His short stories have been translated into English and appeared in Banipal magazine. He also translated Western literary works into Arabic, notably a book of short stories by Latin American Latin Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabbour Douaihy
Jabbour Douaihy (; 1949 – 23 June 2021) was a critically-acclaimed Lebanese writer, translator, and professor of literature. His novels were nominated four times for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and he has also published translations, short story collections, and children's books. His work, mostly originally in Arabic, has been translated several languages, including English and French. Life and education Douaihy was born in Zgharta, Lebanon in 1949 and was a member of the city's prominent El Douaihy family. He obtained a PhD in comparative literature from the New Sorbonne University and served a professor of French literature at the Lebanese University of Tripoli. He was also known for mentoring younger writers, such as through the International Prize for Arabic Fiction Nadwa. Critical reception Academic and translator Paula Haydar describes Jabbour as "a master of detail" in his writing. Douaihy was nominated four times for the International Priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahaa Taher
Bahaa Taher ( ar, بهاء طاهر; 13 January 1935 – 27 October 2022), sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer who wrote in Arabic. He was awarded the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008. Biography Taher was born in Giza Governorate on 13 January 1935, with roots from Luxor in Upper Egypt. He had a bachelor's degree in history, literature faculty in 1956, then a postgraduate diploma in media from the University of Cairo in 1973. He was one of the Egyptian artists who contributed to the avant-garde literary magazine ''Galerie 68''. Upon being banned from writing in 1975, he left Egypt and travelled widely in Africa and Asia seeking work as a translator. During the 1980s and 1990s he lived in Switzerland, where he worked as a translator for the United Nations. Afterwards he returned to Egypt, where he continued to reside. Taher died on 27 October 2022, at the age of 87. Novels ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleur Montanaro
Fleur or plural Fleurs is French for flower. It may refer to: * Fleur (given name) * "Fleur" (short story), a short story by Louise Erdrich *"Fleur" peut être une plante Music * Flëur, a Ukrainian music band * ''Fleurs'' (Franco Battiato album), 1999 * ''Fleurs'' (Former Ghosts album), 2009 *''Fleurs 2'', a 2008 album by Franco Battiato *''Fleurs 3'', a 2002 album by Franco Battiato *''Les Fleur(s)'', a song by Minnie Riperton from the album Come to My Garden, 1970 *''Les Fleurs'', a 1983 album by Ramsey Lewis See also * Fleur-de-lis (other) * Lafleur (other) Lafleur or LaFleur or la Fleur' or ''variation'', may refer to People * Abel Lafleur (1875–1953), French sculptor * Art LaFleur (1943–2021), American actor * David LaFleur (born 1974), American former National Football League player * Eric l ... * Flower (other) * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
