Cultural mobility in Khartoum ... the conclusion of the tenth session of the Al-Tayyeb Prize for Written Innovation

Imad Babiker - Khartoum

With the redress of February of each year, the people of culture and literature - and the Sudanese in particular, remember the departure of the genius of the late Arabic novel, al-Tayyib Salih.

This date has made the Sudanese company for mobile phone (Zain) the timing of a major cultural meeting, by launching the Al-Saleh International Prize for Written Creativity, which completed its first contract this year, to prove its position as one of the most important literary awards in the region.

Yesterday, with official honor and great cultural attendance in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, concluded the Al-Tayeb Saleh Prize for Written Creativity at its tenth session.

The Secretary-General of the Award, Professor Majzoub Aidarous, presented a report on the current session, noting that she witnessed the largest participation compared to all previous sessions, as the total of submitted works amounted to 746 works, the novel received the highest percentage with 392 novels, followed by short short stories that totaled 300 works. As for the cash business, it was the least by a clear difference, limited to 54 studies.

The Secretary-General of the award clarified the map of geographical posts, as the posts came from 32 countries that were distributed on the continents of the world.

Moroccan novel and Iraqi criticism
After the words and lyric separator of "Akd Al-Jallad", the winners were announced, as he won first place in the novel Abdel Basset Zakhnini from Morocco with his novel "The Raven", which is his fifth.

Ghalia Younis Al-Daraani came again from Libya with her novel "Empty Bottles", while "Ibn Al-Salsal" novel by Saeed Al-Khiz from Morocco won third place.

The short story was a feminist fancy, as the Moroccan fatwa, Ahmed Al-Hamri, came in the forefront of the winners of her group "A Night of Revelation", and from Lebanon, Dr. Raja Nima came again with the group "Lovers of Socotra", and the only Sudanese, Shazly Jaafar Shaqqaq, came third with his group tagged "as a ruffle on the garment of twilight."

The third axis of the award was critical studies, and the feminist narrative was allocated a topic for it, and he won the first position in this axis, Faisal Saleh Al-Qusari from Iraq, on the “feminine biography - a reading in the biography of Fadwa Touqan.” The second place was awarded to Mahmoud Farghali from Egypt with his study Self-writing and poetry of resistance. From Iraq, the third winner, Abdul Karim Yahya Zebari, came with “Shahrazad Arab Capitals: Sociology of Feminist Narration.”

And the winner of the first place gets 15 thousand dollars, the second gets 10 thousand dollars, and the third gets 8 thousand dollars.

person of the Year
Professor Malek Badri chose the Board of Trustees as a personality for this session, for his distinguished efforts and writings and contributions in the field of psychiatry, and for his distinguished knowledge production and giving in various international universities, and he was famous for his great project in Islamic psychology.

It is noteworthy that the session celebrated Dr. Francis Deng from South Sudan as a guest of honor, who is the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities and director of the Peace Support Project in Sudan at the United States Institute of Peace. His most important books are "Dynamic Identity - A Foundation for National Integration in Sudan," and "The Clash of Visions: Conflict of Identities in Sudan."

Criticism
Despite the great presence of the intellectuals and writers of the activities of the session, there are reservations and disadvantages to the award, most notably the talk of Culture Street in Sudan that "Zain" pulled the rug from the Al-Tayeb Saleh Prize for Novelty Creativity organized by the Abdul Karim Mirghani Cultural Center in Omdurman, and the last is earlier than the prize that I launched. Zain. "

The critic, Dr. Hashem Mirghani, commented to Al-Jazeera Net about the similarity of the names, saying, "It would have been better for Zain to launch a prize in the name of another, and many of Sudan's creators, instead of cloning the names."

Mirghani criticized the method of arbitration, noting the different committees in different stages, the lack of communication between the arbitrators in the closing stage, and the presentation of each arbitrator to his own list.

The critic Mustafa Al-Sawi, in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, was satisfied with mentioning the positive only on the many critical opinions. He said, "One of the great advantages of this award is its invitation to a number of Arab critics and writers whose visit is a good thing for the Sudanese intellectual, despite the lack of the program accompanying open meetings with their peers and readers in Sudan. ".

"The award printed the winning works in all of their sessions, and this is something to be commended for, because it gave opportunities to Sudanese creators who would have included their works for a large list of manuscript creativity, and I shed light on them for what their experiences deserve," she added.

A member of the Board of Trustees Mahdi Boshra, in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, drew attention to the weakness of publishing within the crises of Sudan and the literary movement, and added, "It is sufficient for the award to have made important names. So far, about a hundred books have been published.

Bushra continues, saying, "We are keen to open up to the guests and the public meetings, and we arranged more than one event with a number of universities in the forefront of which are the University of Khartoum and Omdurman Al-Ahliyya, but we went outside Khartoum.

Samer rose up in Khartoum on a clear night in the sky, as the genius described in the Arabic novel in his novel is the migration season to the north. He said, "Under this beautiful, merciful sky, I feel we are all brothers."