The Sheikh Zayed Book Award today honors the winners of the 13th edition of the award at a ceremony organized by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, in conjunction with the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair which opened yesterday.
Each year, the award honors an elite group of writers, thinkers, publishers and emerging talent whose writings and translations have enriched the intellectual movement.
The literary branch was won by Bensalem Hamish (Morocco) for his book "The Self Between Being and Creation", published by the Cultural Center for the Book. While the writer Hussein Al-Mutawa (Kuwait) won the branch «Literature of the child and the emerging» about his story «I dream to be a cement mixer», issued by Gardens House. The researcher Dr. Abdel-Razzaq Belaqrouz (Algeria) won the "Young Author" section for his book "The Spirit of Values and the Freedom of Concepts towards the Re-linking and Integration of Values and Social Sciences", issued by the Arab Foundation for Thought and Creativity.
While the researcher Dr. Charbel Dagher (Lebanon) won the prize of the branch «Arts and Monetary Studies» for the book «Modern Arab Poetry: Prose poem», issued by the Knowledge Forum. In the "Arabic Culture in Other Languages" section, academic researcher Philip Kennedy (UK) won his book "Exposition in the Arabic Literary Heritage," published by the University of Edinburgh Press. While the Arab Center for Geographical Literature won the "Encounters of Horizons" (UAE) in the branch of «Publishing and Cultural Technologies».