Naji Naaman’s literary prizes 2018
With 2371 participants in competition, from sixty six countries, writing in forty languages and dialects: Albanian, Arabic (literary and several spoken dialects), Armenian, Azeri, Bengali, Bosniak, Bulgarian, Chinese (three characters), Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi (two characters), Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sicilian, Spanish, Swahili, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian and Urdu, the sixteenth picking season of Naji Naaman’s literary prizes (2018) rewarded 64 new prizewinners:
Merit prizes:
Abdallah Drami (Mali)
Adel Bounif (France)
Amina az-Zawi (Tunisia)
Bassel Hommos (Lebanon)
Ilire Zajmi (Albania)
Josep Juárez Arreola (Mexico)
Mihaela Roxana Boboc (Romania)
Mimoza Bici (Albania)
Mohamed Heleqawi (Jordan)
Noureldeen Abdallah (Egypt/Italy).
2- Creativity prizes:
Abdelrahman Selt (Algeria)
Ahmed Abdelwahab (Egypt)
Ahmed Rajab Chaltout (Egypt)
Aissa Belalia (Algeria)
Ali May (Palestine)
Al-Makki al-Fakki (Sudan)
Aya Najih (Morocco)
Christina Borisova (Bulgaria)
Christopher Atamian (U.S.A.)
Claudia Piccinno (Italy)
Daniela E. Bogdan (Romania)
Disha Khanna (India)
Doru Mihai Mateiciuc (Romania)
Dragan M. Vugdelic (Montenegro)
Ecaterina Chifu (Romania)
Elena Predusel (Romania)
Flaminia Cruciani (Italy)
Haneen Sayegh (Lebanon)
Hassan bin Abdo al-Smayli (Saudi Arabia)
Haydar Ergülen (Turkey)
Jovo Nicolic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Luca Benassi (Italy)
Mahmoud Othman (Lebanon)
Mireille Chémaly (Lebanon)
Nicolae Grigore Marasanu (Romania)
Rajiv Khandelwal (India)
Rubina-Olga Panaouta (Cyprus)
Sadiq Altereahy (Iraq)
Sonnet Mondal (India)
Sunita Paul (India)
Sylvia Dupuis (Canada)
Sylvine Lachmann (France)
Taeko Uemura, (Japan)
Violeta Boncheva (Bulgaria)
Vladimir Mickovic (Montenegro)
William Zhou (China)
3- Honour prizes (for complete works): Chinese-Canadian poet and writer Changming Yuan; French poetess Chris (Christine) Grolleau-Braibant; Romanian writer and translator Constantin Frosin; Romanian writer Culita Ioan Usurelu;Haitian thinker and writer Élie Fleurant; Romanian poet Ion M. Deaconescu; Bosnian poetess and novelist living in France Jasna Šamic; Indian poet Lanka Siva Rama Prasad; Cuban poet Manuel Adrián López; Japanese poetess and essayist Mariko Sumikura; Czech poet and artist Miroslav Huptych; Palestinian-Jordanian writer and translator Nizar Sartawi; American poet and editor Stanley H. Barkan; Croatian poet Tomislav Supek; Serbian poetess and short-story writer Verica Tadic; Russian poet and translator Vyacheslav Glebovich Kupriyanov; Kosovar poet Xhemil Bytyçi.
4- Genius prize (awarded for the second time since the launching of the prizes in 2002. First time awarded in 2016): Ukrainian writer, translator and journalist Dmytro Chystiak.
During next July, laureates will find their chosen texts printed (integrally or in part) in the prizes’ yearbook within the free of charge literary series published by Naji Naaman’s Foundation for Gratis Culture (FGC), and shall receive an appropriate attestation giving them the honorary title of member of Maison Naaman pour la Culture.
Released in 2002, Naji Naaman’s literary prizes are awarded to authors of the most emancipated literary works in content and style, aiming to revive and develop human values.
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Since he was seven, his dream was to write, publish and distribute books for free; and that’s what he did when he published his first printed book “Khams wa ‘Ishrun” in 1979.
