Longlist announcements of Sheikh Zayed Book Award Continue

Last Update: Thursday, December 15, 2016 : 14:42 (+4GMT)

Children’s Literature and Young Author

Abu Dhabi, 15 December 2016: The Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced today its longlist for two categories; ‘Children’s Literature’ and ‘Young Author’.

The titles in the ‘Children’s Literature’ longlist were selected from more than 95 nominations mostly received from five countries; Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi, Kuwait and Syria.

	Book title	Author	Nationality	Publisher
1	‘al betaqa al ajeeba’ (The Amazing Card)	Samar Barraj	Lebanon	Al Salwa – Jordan 2014
2	‘haflat shai fi qasr Cinderella’ (A Tea Party at Cinderella’s Palace)	Arwa Khamayyis	Saudi Arabia	Arwa Al-Arabeia- Saudi 2015
3	‘ al manzel al azraq’ (the Blue House)	Samah Ezzat	Egypt	Dar al Banan – Lebanon 2016
4	‘bila qubba’a’ (Hatless)	Lateefa Buti	Kuwait	Seedan Media – Kuwait 2015
5	‘sadeeq al nujoom’ (Friend of Stars)	Hassan Abdallah	Lebanon	Academia International- Lebanon 2017
6	‘al zi’ba Um kaseb’ (Umm Kaseb, the She-Wolf)	Lina al Hasan	Syria	Hakaya- Lebanon 2016
7	Nuwayyer (nuwayyer)	Taleb Al Alrefai	Kuwait	Kalimat, UAE 2015
8	Princess Buhruj Palace	Ahlam Bsharat	Palestine	Palestine Workshop 2016

For the ‘Young Author’ category, eight books have made it to the longlist out of 367 titles, most of which come from UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco. The titles are:

	Book title	Type	Author	Country	Publisher
1	‘al darak al a’la’ (A Higher Abyss)	A novel	Khaled Alnasrallah	Kuwait	Nova Plus, Kuwait 2016
2	‘fi’ran ummi Hissa’ (My mom Hissa’s mice)	A novel	Saud Al-Sanusi	Kuwait	Arab Scientific Publishers - Difaf, Lebanon 2015
3	‘risalat al nur’ (Message of Light)	A novel	Mohammed Tarazi	Lebanon	Arab Scientific Publishers, Lebanon 2016
4	‘qitar Paris’ (Paris Train)	A novel	Bahaa Al Gharaibeh	Jordan	Arab institute for Research and Publishing , Lebanon 2016
5	‘Shaqraa’ kal dahab’ (Blonde as Gold)	A novel	Abdulla Al- Mannaei	Bahrain	Arab Scientific Publishers, Lebanon 2016
6	‘al balagha wal sard’ (The rhetoric and narrative)	A study	Hecham Mechbal	Morocco	Dar Konoz, 2015
7	‘al harb, muqaraba falsafiyya’ (a philosophical approach to war)	A study	Zuhair el-Yagoubi	Morocco	Difaf Publising , 2016
8	‘lughat al takhatub al hijaji’ (a study of Ibn Hazm’s argumentative discourse)	A study	Mustafa Al-Attar	Morocco	Dar Konoz, Jordan 2017

In the past few weeks, the award announced longlist in three categories; ‘Best Contribution to Development of Nations’, ‘Arts and Literary Criticism’ and ‘Translation’. The rest of categories will be revealed in the next few weeks.

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