Literary award for Arabic novels
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Award
The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel is an Arabic literary prize based in
Qatar . It was established in 2014 by the
Katara Cultural Village . The total prize pool is $650,000 and the main prize $200,000, making it one of the
richest literary prizes in the world .
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[3] One of its sponsors is UNESCO.
[4] The winning novels will be translated into five languages - including French and English.
The prize was originally split into two major categories: published and unpublished novels each of which had five winners. More recently, prizes were added for research/literary criticism and for young adult unpublished novels. For the published novels, the five winners originally received $60,000 while five winners under unpublished category were each awarded $30,000. Among the winners in each category, one was chosen as the "drama" winner in which the winning works are guaranteed film adaptations. The drama winner in the published category received an additional $200,000.
In addition to the original award for Arabic novels, separate awards have been given for Arabic short stories and poetry.
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Winners
- winner of the drama prize
2015
Sources:
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Published
Unpublished
2016
2017
Prize for Published Novel - $60,000 each
Said Khatibi, Forty Years Awaiting Isabel
Sameha Kheres, Fostoq Abeed
Shaker Noori, Khatoon Baghdad
Hoshank Osi , The Plight of the Questions and the Lust of Imagination
Mohamed Barada, Mawt Mokhtalif
Prize for Unpublished Novel - $30,000 each
Husein Al-Sakaf, False Face Statue
Taha Mohamed Taha, The Apple Tree
Abdelwahab Eisawi, Safar Amal Al-Manseyen
Mohamed Al-Meer Ghalib, Shahd Al-Maqaber
Mona Al-Shimi, Watan Al-Jeeb Al-Khalfi
Research-Literary Criticism - $10,000 each
Dr. Al-Basheer Dayfallah
Dr. Khalid Ali Al-Yas
Dr. Abdelhamid Al-Hossami
Dr. Mostafa Al-Nahal
Dr. Youssef Youssef
Prize for Young Adult Unpublished Novels - $10,000 each
Ahmad Shehata, Jabal Al-Khorafat
Ghamar Mahmoud, Babel's Mirror
Kauther Al-Gondi, Seren's Notebook
Moneera Al-Darwai, It is not a Condition to be a Superhero to Succeed
Nasr Sami, Al-Taer Al-Bashari
2018
Prize for a published novel
[7] - $60,000 each
Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Barry Ansouda Sudan
Omar Ahmed Fadlallah, Breaths
Thawrah Hawamidah, A Paradise That Did Not Drop Its Apple
Qassim Mohammed Tawfiq, The Little Bird Bled
Najat Hussein Abdul Samad ,
[8] No Water to Tell
Prize for an unpublished novel
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[10] - $30.000 each
Haya Saleh, Another Color of the Sunset
Abdulkareem Al Obaidi, The American Beard
Hassan Baeti, Temporary Faces
Thaera Akrabawi, Hajar
Zakaria Abdel-Gawad, Neigh Astray
2019
Prize for a published novel
[11] - $60,000 each
Prize for an unpublished novel
[11] - $30.000 each
Warid Bader Al-salim, The Kidnapped
Salemi Nasser, A Cup of Coffee and a Croissant
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Abdelmomen Ahmed AbdelAal, At The Gates of El-Mahrousa
Wafa Alloush, Haystack
Aicha Ammor, A life in black and white
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2020
Prize for a published novel
[14] - $60,000 each
Prize for an unpublished
novel
[14] - $30.000 each
Prize for a published novel - $60,000 each
Prize for an unpublished novel - $30.000 each
Prize for the studies category concerned with research and fiction criticism - $15,000 each
Dr. Ahmed Adel Al Qadabi from Egypt
Dr. Reda Jawadi from Tunisia
Dr. Muhammad Al Dahi from Morocco
Mamdouh Farraj Al Nabi from Egypt
Dr. Yahya bin Al Walid from Morocco.
Prize for youngsters’ category - $10,000 each
Al Hanouf Muhammad Al Wahaimed from Saudi Arabia
Faisal Muhammad Abdullah Al Ansari from Qatar
Dr. Omar Sofi Mohamed from Egypt
Magdy Younes from Egypt
Munira Al Darawi from Tunisia
Prize for the published Qatari novel
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