Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2026 Shortlists
Organizers also note that all literary works on this year’s shortlists will be eligible for translation support from Arabic into any world language.
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Hoda Barakat Wins 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Yesterday, Lebanese-French author Hoda Barakat won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) in the prize’s literature category, for her 2024 novel Hind, or the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2024 Literary Longlists
DECEMBER 6, 2024 — The UAE-based Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced longlists in four categories today: literature, young author, children’s literature, and editing of Arabic manuscripts. In a prepared release, […]
Reem Bassiouney Wins 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for her ‘Fatimid Trilogy’
APRIL 4, 2024 — Organizers of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced their 2024 winners today. The list was led by the high-profile literature category, which went to Reem Bassiouney’s […]
Sunday Submissions: Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2024
One of the most prestigious and well-endowed prizes in the region, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, is open for submissions. Books can be put forward for the ten awards below: […]
Sheikh Zayed Book Awards to Iraqi Poet Ali Jaafar Alallaq, Algerian Novelist Said Khatibi, Others
Iraqi author Ali Jaafar Alallaq has won the 2023 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, in the Literature category, for his 2022 memoir “إلى أين أيتها القصيدة؟ سيرة ذاتية” (Whereto, O Poem? An Autobiography).
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Longlists in Literature, Children’s Literature, and Emerging Author Categories
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award today announced their 2023 longlists in three key categories: “Literature,” “Children’s Literature,” and “Emerging Author.”
Sunday Submissions: 2023 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The 2023 Sheikh Zayed Book Award is open for submissions until October 1, 2022.
Bringing a New Audience to Arabic Literature
Bringing a New Audience to Arabic Literature Featuring Michael Cooperson, Sawad Hussain, and Chip Rossetti In 2018, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award launched the translation grant to foster the translation, […]