Why aren’t more children’s books published in translation?
Join Tom Tivan, Pam Dix, Salwa Shakshir, and Tom Bonnick as they discuss the market for global children’s literature.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
SZBA Announces Longlistees in Young Author and Children’s Literature Categories
The children’s-literature longlist, meanwhile, was made up 10 titles from six Arab countries. Half of the longlisted writers were from the Gulf (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Oman), with the other half from Tunisia, Syria, and Morocco.
Sunday Submissions: 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award is open for submissions until October 1, 2021.
Upcoming Events: Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, Arabic Publishing during the Cold War & More
A few upcoming online events, through the end of May.
Iman Mersal Wins 2021 SZBA with ‘In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat’
This year’s “literature” award went to Iman Mersal for her 2019 work of creative nonfiction Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat).
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 13-book Literature Longlist
The longlist is made up of two poetry collections, a memoir by acclaimed Moroccan author Bensalem Himmich, and ten novels.
‘After Coffee’: A Dialogue Between Author, Translator, and Editor
“I was immediately absorbed by the description of the Egyptian village, which I knew I would never experience so intimately as a visitor. The opening scene with its image of the novel’s 5-year old protagonist Medhat, racing across the canal that divides his village from the village of the Upper Egyptians had me hooked.”
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Deadline Extended
This is your year to get a Sheikh Zayed Book Award.