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Naguib Mahfouz Prize
The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is a literary award for Arabic literature.Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature , official website. It is given to the best contemporary novel written in , but not available in English translation. The winning book is then translated into English, and published by American University in Cairo Press. It was first awarded in 1996 and is presented annually on December 11, the birthday of Nobel laureate , by the President of the |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alia Mamdouh
Alia Mamdouh (also spelled Aliyah Mamduh) (born 1944) is an Iraqi novelist, author, and journalist living in exile in Paris, France. She won the 2004 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her novel ''The Loved Ones''. She is most known for her widely acclaimed and translated book ''Naphtalene'', originally written in Arabic. Her 2020 novel ''The Tank'' was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Mamdouh was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1944. After completing her degree in psychology from the University of Mustansiriya in 1971, while at the same time working as editor-in-chief of Al Rasid magazine and editor of al-Fikr al-mua’sir magazine, Mamdouh decided to move in 1982. She has since lived in Beirut, Morocco, and finally Paris, where she currently lives. She continues to write. She cites Albert Camus as an influence. Works * ''Overture for Laughter'' (short stories) (1973) * ''Habbat-al-Naphatalin / Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad'' (Original Arabic publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel Esmat
Adel Esmat (Arabic: عادل عصمت) is an Egyptian novelist who was born in 1959. He published a collection of short stories named ''Fragments'' and nine novels including ''Days of the Blue Windows'', published in 2009, which was awarded the State Prize for Incentive for Novels in 2011. Whereas, his novel ''Tales of Yusuf Tadrus'', which was published in 2015, won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2016 and later the American University of Cairo published an English translation of the novel. Education and career Adel Esmat is a novelist who was born in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt in 1959. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Ain Shams in 1984. Then, he had a second degree in Library Science from the University of Tanta in 1986. Now, he works as a library specialist in the Egyptian Ministry of Education. Esmat published his first novel ''Obsession of Death'' in 1995; and now he has published nine novels including ''Stable Life'', ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Daoud
Hassan Daoud (Arabic: حسن داوود) (born 1950) is a Lebanese writer and journalist. Originally from the village of Noumairieh in southern Lebanon, he moved to Beirut as a child with his family. He studied Arabic literature at university. During the Lebanese civil war that broke out in 1975, he worked as a journalist, a profession he has pursued ever since. He served as a correspondent for ''al-Hayat'' for 11 years. At present he edits ''Nawafez'', the cultural supplement of the Beiruti newspaper '' al-Mustaqbal''. Daoud has published eight novels and two volumes of short stories. As of 2011, five of the novels have been translated into English. Daoud has also been translated into French and German (by Hartmut Faehndrich). His work has appeared in Banipal magazine. Awards and honors *2015 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature winner for ''No Road to Paradise'' Works * ''The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine'' (translated by Randa Jarrar) * ''Borrowed Time' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammour Ziada
Hammour Ziada ( ar, حمور زيادة, born 1979) is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. Before, he had been writing for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudan. Two of his novels were selected for Arabic literary awards and appeared in English translations. Life and career In Sudan, Ziada worked for national newspapers, including ''Al-Mustaqilla'', ''Ajras al-Horriya'', and ''Al-Jarida''. At ''Al-Akhbar,'' he served as the culture editor. Ziada has published several volumes of fiction in Arabic, and is best known for his second novel ''Shawq al-darwīsh (The Longing of the Dervish''), which won the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Prize in Egypt in 2014 and was also nominated for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This novel, that takes place during the Mahdist state, and several of his stories have appeared in English translation, including the ... [...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] |
Al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt. Given the many varieties of Arabic language, ''Al-Ahram'' is widely considered an influential source of writing style in Arabic. In 1950, the Middle East Institute described ''Al-Ahram'' as being to the Arabic-reading public within its area of distribution, "What ''The Times'' is to Englishmen and ''The New York Times'' to Americans";Middle East Institute, 1950, p. 155. however, it has often been accused of heavy influence and censorship by the Egyptian government. In addition to the main edition published in Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-language editions, one geared to the Arab world and the other aimed at an international audience, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of The Wolf (Novel)
House of the Wolf (''Bayt al-Deeb'', ar, بيت الدِّيب) is Ezzat el Kamhawi's fourth novel and eighth book. It was first released in Arabic language in 2010 by Dar Al-Adab in Beirut. In December 2012, el Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature award for this novel, the English edition was released in 2013 by AUC Press. The translation was done by Nancy Roberts. Background In House of the Wolf el-Kamhawi deals with the lives of four generations of the Wolf (Al-Deeb) rural Egyptian family for more than one hundred and fifty years, monitoring the Egyptian and World history through the history of the family. A novel of 272 pages of medium size, and thus is considered the biggest work for Ezzat el Kamhawi Ezzat El Kamhawi ( ar, عزت القمحاوي) is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. In December 2012, El Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel ''House of the Wolf (Novel), House of the Wolf''. In June 2022 . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezzat El Kamhawi
Ezzat El Kamhawi ( ar, عزت القمحاوي) is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. In December 2012, El Kamhawi was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel '' House of the Wolf''. In June 2022 he was awarded the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press (Opinion Piece category) for his article "Suspicious architecture: The obsession with grand buildings and wide streets". He was born in 1961 and graduated from the department of journalism in the ''Faculty of Mass Communications'', Cairo University in 1983. Early life and career El Kamhawi was born on 23 December 1961 in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, before graduating from high school he had articles published for him in the ''Al Gomhuria'' newspaper. After graduating from the department of journalism in the Faculty of Mass Communications, Cairo University, he started working for '' Al-Akhbar'', where he helped establish ''Akhbar Al-Adab'' 10 years later, a widely known literature magazine. He was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miral Al-Tahawy
Miral al-Tahawy (Arabic: ميرال الطحاوي), also known as Miral Mahgoub, is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. She comes from a conservative Bedouin background and is regarded as a pioneering literary figure. The ''Washington Post'' has described her as "the first novelist to present Egyptian Bedouin life beyond stereotypes and to illustrate the crises of Bedouin women and their urge to break free." Biography She was born in a village in the Sharqia Governorate in the eastern Nile delta. Her Bedouin family belongs to the al-Hanadi tribe. Al-Tahawy is the youngest of seven children. She has stated that her progressive-thinking father was responsible for her obtaining an education, in spite of the constraints of traditional Bedouin society especially on women. She gained a BA in Arabic literature from Zagazig University, and then worked as a schoolteacher which allowed her to avoid early marriage. She then continued her education at Cairo University, moving to the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Sweileh
Khalil Sweileh ( ar, خليل صويلح; born 1959) is a Syrian journalist and novelist. He was born in Al-Hasakah and studied literature at Damascus University. He has since worked for a number of cultural publications in various capacities. Sweileh received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2009 for his novel ''The Scribe of Love''. In his acceptance speech, Sweileh mentioned that as a village boy, his chance discovery of a tattered copy of Mahfouz's novel ''Khufu's Wisdom'' was partly responsible for inspiring his love of literature. His previous novels include ''Express Mail'' (2004), ''Do Not Blame Me (2006)'', and ''Zuhur, Sara, and Nariman'' (2008). Sweileh's novels have yet to be translated into English. He won the Arab Journalism Award in 2010, and the Literature Award from the Sheikh Zayed Book Award The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is a literary award begun in the UAE. It is presented yearly to "Arab writers, intellectuals, publishers as well as young talent whose writings and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamdi Abu Golayyel
Hamdi Abu Golayyel (Arabic: حمدي أبوجليل) is an Egyptian writer. Early life He was born in 1967/68 in a Bedouin village in the Fayoum region. His ancestors arrived from Libya in the early 19th century to settle in Fayoum. Abu Golayyel migrated to Cairo in the early 1980s, and worked as a construction labourer on building sites. These experiences later provided material for his literary endeavours. Career His first book was a collection of short stories published in 1997 under the title ''Swarm of Bees''. His second collection, released in 2000, won several literary awards. He received further acclaim with his novel ''Thieves in Retirement'', originally published by Merit Publishing House in Cairo, and later by Syracuse University Press in an English translation by Marilyn Booth. His next novel ''A Dog with No Tail'' won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 2008. An English translation by Robin Moger has been released by the AUC Press The American University in Cairo Press ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |