The winners of the Humanities and Social Sciences Awards 2021 were announced in a ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa on March 31, 2021. The Humanities and Social Sciences Awards, now in their sixth year, are co-ordinated by The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and open to South African publishers, scholars based in […]
Layla AlAmmar, Nadia Ghanem, and Leri Price were revealed as the judges for the ArabLit Story Prize 2021 on April 1, 2021. The ArabLit Story Prize is an award celebrating the best short stories, in any genre, newly translated from Arabic into English. It was founded in 2018 by Arablit.org, a leading resource on Arab […]
Ahmed Taibaoui’s The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody was announced as the winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2021 on April 1, 2021. The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is a literary award for Arabic literature given to the best contemporary novel written in Arabic, but not available in English translation. The winning book […]
For the second year running, Calabash International Literary Festival has been cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 driven global health crisis. It will now happen on May 27-29, 2022. The Calabash International Literary Festival, which runs every two years, was founded by novelist Colin Channer, poet Kwame Dawes, and Justine Henzell in 2001. Since […]
