NAJI NAAMAN'S LITERARY PRIZES 2008

Sixth picking season: 2007-2008

Number of candidates and manuscripts: 718

Number of laureates: 73

Received from the following forty five countries: albania - algeria - australia - bahrain - belgium - bulgaria - canada - congo - croatia - denmark - egypt - france - germany - greece - holland - hungary - iran - iraq - italy - ivory coast - jordan - kuwait - la martinique - lebanon - libya - macedonia - morocco - oman - palestine - paraguay - qatar - romania - saudi arabia - senegal - serbia - spain - sudan - sweden - syria - tunisia - turkey - united arab emirates - united kingdom - united states of america - yemen.

Naji Naaman
sketch by Kamal Atallah
1995

Prizes book in eighteen languages: Arabic (literary and spoken), French, English, Creole, Spanish, Romanian, Iranian, Munukutuba (Congo), Dutch, Danish, Italian, Turkish, Hungarian, Croatian, Greek, Bulgarian and Arumanian (ancient Slav language).

During the following weeks, laureates will found their chosen texts printed (integrally or in part) in the prizes' yearbook within a free of charge literary series, and shall receive an appropriate attestation giving them the honorary title of member of Maison Naaman pour la Culture.

1- OUTSIDE COMPETITION PRIZES:

Encouragement prizes:

 (Congo) Evelyne Mankou

(Lebanon) Jessy Lahoud

(Syria) Nouzad Jad'an

(Bahrain) Muhammad Sarhan

Merit prizes:

(Jordan) Nidhal Al-Qassim
(Tunisia) Mahmud Al-Harshani
(Algeria) Samir Khalafallah Al-Andalussi & Sa'd Sa'ud Shakhab
(Egypt) As-Sayyid 'Abdul-'Aziz 'Ali Najm
(Iraq) 'Ali Kazim Dawud & Hassan As-Salman
 

2- COMPETITION PRIZES:
 

Merit prizes:

 
(Macedonia) Anita Shteryova-Dragovich

(Bahrain) Ibrahim Ad-Dussari

(Morocco) Ibrahim Al-Qadri Boutchich, Anis Ar-Rafi'i, Hussam Ad-Din Nawali

(Morocco) 'Abdul-Haq Mifrani & Halima Sbihi 

(Algeria) Ibrahim Mchara 

(Egypt) Ahmad Qorni Muhammad Shahata 

(Saudi Arabia) Ja'far Al-Bahrani

(Jordan) Ra'id Al-'Ayss

(Iraq) Sa'd Muhammad Rahim

(Palestine) Sulayman Al-Hazin & Muhannad Salahat

(Sudan) 'Adil Al-Amin

(Iran) 'Abdun-Nabi Al-Qayyim

(Syria) Ghimar Mahmud, Nabiha Mu'alla, Nada Ar-Rifa'i & Nour Jandali

(U.A.E.) Fatima Al-Briki

(Yemen) Marwan Al-Ghafuri

(France-Lebanon) Dania Soubra

(Canada) Lucy-France Dutremble

Creativity prizes:

(France) Eric Lemoine

(Jordan) Ahmad Ghashmari

 (Congo) Ghislaine Sathoud

(Egypt) Hanane Faruq, Mahmud Al-Azhari & Huda Hussayn

(Iraq) Khalida Khalil & Safa' Al-Muhajir

(Syria) Ra'ida Al-Khudhari, Kahtan Bayraqdar & Munir Khalaf

(Algeria) Zahra Bouskine, 'Aqila Rabhi & Nazir Tayyar

(Saudi Arabia) Zaynab Al-Bahrani & Ra'id Qassim

(Morocco) Hassan Birtal, Sa'id Boukrami, 'Abdul-'Aziz Hajoy, 'Abdallah Al-Muttaqi

(Morocco) 'Iz-ad-Din Al-Ma'izi, Muhammad Al-Fakhari, 'Abdallah Benbachir & 'Abdelilah Grain

(Tunisia) Muhammad Al-Fadhil Sulayman, Sidqi Sha'bani & Salah Bin 'Ayad

(Palestine) Tariq Makkawi

(Canada) Henry Beissel & Clay McCann

(U.S.A.) W. Jude Aher

Honour prizes (complete work):

(France) Daniel Leduc (Poet)

(Belgium) Geert Verbeke (Thinker)

(Denmark) Niels Hav (Poet)

(Canada) Jean Grignon, Pierre Desruisseaux & Sterling Heynes (Writers)

(Macedonia) Vanghea Mihanj-Steryu (Writer in Arumanian)