Rabat- Moroccan author Mohamed El Amrani has won the‘’Al-Rafidain’’ First Book Awards 2022, in the category of short stories for his collection of short stories ‘’La language de Borges,’’ (Lisan Boukhris in Arabic).
The prize is given to contemporary Arabic-language authors in order to encourage budding writers and give them the opportunity to access the world of literature by printing, publishing, and distributing their works in Arab countries.
The jury of the third edition of Al-Rafidain First Book Awards includes Egyptian novelist Waheed Al-Taweelah, Moroccan author Aicha El Basri, Lebanese poet and critic Abdo Wazen, Iraqi novelist Abdelhadi Saadoun, Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán, chair of the Department of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and Iraqi poet Talib Abd-Alaziz.
Winner of ‘’Al-Rafidain’’ First Book Award Mohamed El Amrani Picture: Dar Al-Rafidain
Alaa Halifi, a writer and architect, was the first Moroccan to win the ‘’Al-Rafidain’’ First Book Awards in 2021 for her book ‘’Praise of Madness,’’ a fiction novel set in Casablanca.
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