‘Lebanese Blonde,’ ‘House of Stone,’ ‘Atrium’ Win 2013 Arab American Book Awards
Yesterday evening, the Arab American Museum announced winners of the 2013 Arab American Book Awards — although it looks like Three Rooms Press knew about the winners around June 20 — but in any case there were four winners and five honorable mentions:
According to organizers, “The program has attracted increasing numbers of submissions from authors and publishers across the nation in its brief, seven-year history,” According to the museum’s Kim Silarski, there were 31 submissions. The names of the judges are not made public “to preserve the integrity of the process.”
Fiction – Lebanese Blonde by Joseph Geha
Nonfiction – House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
Poetry – Atrium: Poems by Hala Alyan
Children/Young Adult – Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books by Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya
This year’s Honorable Mentions:
Fiction – Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra
Non-Fiction – The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al-Maria and Even My Voice is Silence by Soha Al-Jurf
Poetry – Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan
Children/Young Adult – Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Winning titles will be celebrated at the 2013 Arab American Book Award Ceremony on Nov 2 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA.
More details on the Arab-American Museum website.