Morocco is included on the list of the top works participating in the ninth round of the Katara Award for Arabic Novels, according to the Public Institution for the Cultural Village.
The Moroccan ‘Old Warrior’ by Toufiq Bamida, ‘Anatomy of Desire’ by Rim Nejmi, ‘Formations on the time plate’ by Mostafa Ismaili, and ‘Oracle typewriter’ by Youssef Germaj all made the published section of the Katara Awards.
The Public Institution for the Cultural Village announced that the 60 works competing for the Katara Award include 14 Arab novelists, with 19 novels from Egypt, 9 novels from Syria, 5 novels from Lebanon and Jordan, Morocco with 4 novels and Algeria with 3 novels.
Saudi Arabia, Aman, Iraq, and Palestine made the list with two books. Sudan, Tunisia, and Mauritania each contributed one novel.
Morocco made the list for the 60 unpublished books with 11 works, Egypt had 13, Tunisia had 10, Algeria, Syria, and Iraq each had six, and Iraq had five.
The total number of submissions for the 2023 edition of the Katara Award for Arabic Fiction was 1491. Of those, 833 were unpublished novels, while 393 were published.
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