The Department of Culture and Information in Sharjah announced the winners of the 13th session of the Sharjah Prize for Arab Creativity for the first book and literary criticism categories, the latter of which was dedicated to studying the aesthetic and adventurous standards of the short story.
The following is a list of award winners:
Poetry:
First Prize: Mohamed Hassan Abdel Fadeel (Egypt) for Brides of Grief; Second Prize: Mohammad Ali Alkhaddor (Syria) for Playing with Borrowed Fingers; Third Prize: Yasser Mutlaq Al-Otaibi (Saudi Arabia) for A Possible Life.
Honorable mention: My Song was Weighed Down by Obsession by Rasheed Hussain Abbas (Syria), and A Measure of Love's Distance by Hezabr Mahmoud Ali (Iraq).
Short Story:
First Prize: Hala Karni Mohamed (Egypt) for her collection Repeated Stand; Second Prize: Rudy Hassan Abdullah (Syria) for his collection The Immigrant; Third Prize was jointly awarded to Bassim Jameel Al-Rais (Syria) for his collection Tomorrow I Will Sew My Mouth, and Muntather Nasser Kadhim (Iraq) for his collection Wilted .
Honorable mention: My Country as it Moves Away, a collection of short stories by Nadim Ziad Hadi (Jordan), and Alone on Noah's Ark, a collection by Ibrahim Awad Khalaf (Syria).
Novel:
First Prize: Luba Hani Al Jurdi (Syria) for Ferfana Alhasir; Second Prize: Hani Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Maqsoud Al Qit (Egypt) for Biography of Extinction; Third Prize: Mohammed Alkravs (Morocco) for Topography of Bread and the Homeland.
Honorable mention:
Ibtisam Mohammad Elsafsafi (Syria) for Picture; A Spray of Ice by Samia Mustafa Fattah (Jordan); and Toss-out/ A Girl Made of Paper by Mira bint Dajeen bin Obaid Al Kaabi (Saudi Arabia).
Theater:
First Prize: Kamal Alkhaladi (Morocco) for Malfunction; Second Prize: Malik Hussein Kerkot (Syria) for Nothing but an Illusion; Third Prize: Bassam Rashad Al-Ahmad (Syria) for The Cemetery.
Honorable mention:
I Still Dream of Singing by Yasser Ahmed Hussein Ismail (Egypt); The Fish and The Whalesby Yasmine Abbas Abdullah Al Damen (Jordan); The Misled King by Mohammed Abdul Hafeez Mohammed Karna (Egypt).
Children's Literature:
First Prize: Zaki Salim Mardenli (Syria) for his play Farah and the Ghouls; Second Prize: Mohamed Hassan Abdel Hafez Mohamed (Egypt) for his play The Game of the Ogress; Third Prize: Aisha Saeed Al Zaabi (UAE) for The City of Life.
Honorable mention:
No to Leaving by Qais Mahmoud Darwish (Syria); The Bitter Pill by Ahmad Jarallah Yassin (Iraq); and Her Majesty by Najla Ahmed Ali (Syria).
Literary Criticism:
First Prize:
Mohamed Tanfo (Morocco) for his study The Short Story in Morocco: Aesthetic Standards and Adventurous Texts; Second Prize: Sawsan Hadi Jafar (Iraq) for her study The Narrative Adventure: "The Aesthetics of Narrative Composition" – An Artistic Insight into the Work of Literary Blog of Faraj Yassin; Third Prize: Omar Abdel-Hakim Ragab Ahmed (Egypt) for his study The Aesthetic Standards of the Adventurous Texts in the Short Story.
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