Katara prize for Arab novels awarded to three Moroccans

Katara prize for Arab novels awarded to three Moroccans
Friday 15 October 2021 - 18:34

Three Moroccans were awarded in the 7th edition of Katara Prize for Arab Novels, two of which are critics and one is a novelist, Cultural Village Foundation announced.

Younes Ouali was announced the winner in the unpublished Arabic novel category for his novel “Dakira alimat al mada” (painful memory), alongside many other Arabs including the Syrian Iâtidal Najib Al-Choufi, the Iraqi Waghid Al Gharb, the Egyptian Mohamed Abdellah Al-Hadi and the Tunisian Walid Ben Ahmed.

In the category of Studies on Research and Literary Criticism competition, Moroccan critics Mohamed Al-Dahi and Yahya Ibn Al-Walid were awarded for their studies “The power of articulation in contemporary Arab novelist discourse”, and “Maraya Atamdin wa Tahjin fi Riwaya al-arabia al jadida (example from Morocco) » Additionally, awards in this category were also given to the Egyptian Ahmed Adil Al-Kadabi, the Tunisian Rida Jawadi and the Egyptian Mamdouh Faraj Al-Nabi.

“Katara” is an annual award launched in 2014 by the “Katara” Cultural Foundation, allocated with an amount of USD635,000 in total prizes.

Among the published novels in Arabic, the Tunisian Habib Al-Salmi, the Egyptian Ahmad Al-Qarmalawi, the Palestinian Fajr Yaâkoub, the Egyptian Ayman Rajab Tahir and the Palestinian Nadir Minhal Hajj Omar were writers and authors who stood out.

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