Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2016 call for nominations

(Abu Dhabi) – The Sheikh Zayed Book Award has announced the opening of acceptance of nominations for its tenth cycle of 2015/2016, which will be welcomed until 30th September 2015.
The award’s executive office is now accepting nominations from creative individuals in any of the award’s nine categories: Best Contribution to the Development of Nations, Children’s Literature, including adolescents books, Young Author, Translation, Literature, Literary and Art Criticism, Arabic Culture in Other Languages, Publishing and Cultural Technologies, and Cultural Personality of the Year.
Applicants are invited to collect their application papers from the administrative offices of the award or apply online. The application forms should be submitted to the Sheikh Zayed Book Award offices along with the candidate’s resume, passport copy, personal photo, and five copies of the nominated work in a paper format, except works nominated for the award of “Publishing and Cultural Technologies” which can be a digital or web portal address nomination.
(Courtesy WAM)