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The 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Award Ceremony
Ewart Memorial Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
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Established in 1996, the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is awarded to the best contemporary novel written and published in Arabic. The award is a cash prize of US$5,000, and the translation and publication of the winning novel throughout the English-speaking world, and is presented annually on 11 December, the birthday of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz,
This year’s six shortlisted titles were chosen from 181 novels submitted from 18 countries across the Arab world and outside it by a panel of esteemed judges, chaired by Sarah Enany, professor in the English Department of Cairo University and winner of the Banipal Prize for Literary Translation. She is joined by Ahmed Taibaoui, winner of the Best Arabic Novel Prize at the Sharjah International Book Fair in 2023 and the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2021; Kay Heikkinen, formerly at the University of Chicago, and winner of the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation; Youssef Rakha, novelist, poet, and essayist; and Maysa Zaki, literary and theater critic with over thirty years of experience in the field.
The shortlist includes:
- The Sky is Smoking Cigarettes (al-Sama’ tudakhin al-saga’ir) by Wajdi al-Ahdal (Yemen)
- The Glass Woman (al-Sayyida al-zujajiya) by Amr El-Adly (Egypt)
- The Scribe: Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (al-Warraq Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi) by Hisham Eid (Egypt)
- My Name is Zayzafun (Ismi Zayzafun) by Sausan Jamil Hasan (Syria)
- House of the Judge: The Journey of Qassim bin Yunis (Bayt al-qadi: masirat Qasim bin Yunis) by Mahmoud Adel Taha (Egypt)
- Muted Microphone (Micrufun katim sawt) by Mohammed Tarazi (Lebanon).
Join us for an evening of literary excellence and inspiration!