Abu Dhabi: The Board of Trustees of the Shaikh Zayed Book Award approved the winners’ list put forward by the award’s Scientific Committee for the eleventh edition, 2016-2017.
The board’s annual meeting was chaired by Shaikh Sultan Bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, Member of the Executive Council, and Dr Ali Bin Tamim, Secretary-General of Shaikh Zayed Book Award, in the presence of other board members.
During the meeting, Dr Bin Tamim presented the statistical indicators of nominations in the current edition, in addition to showcasing the extensive work done by the reading and judging panels and the Scientific Committee to comprehensively review nominations and subsequent reports. He also elaborated on the preparations for the Award’s Grand Ceremony on April 30, parallel to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair proceedings.
The Shaikh Zayed Book Award’s Board of Trustees approved the winners for the eleventh cycle across the categories of Literature, Children’s Literature, Contribution to the Development of Nations, Literary and Art Criticism, Translation, Arabic Culture in Other Languages, Publishing and Technology, and Cultural Personality of the Year.
