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The short story collection “Sad Dolls” by Egyptian Samir El-Feel won the Al-Multaqa Short Story Award in its sixth session, which concluded yesterday, Wednesday, at the headquarters of the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait, which sponsors the award.
The value of the award, which was established by the Cultural Forum in Kuwait and sponsored by the university, is $20,000.
The shortlist for the award included 4 other short story collections in addition to the winning collection: “A Short Time for Panic” by the Omani Yahya Salam Al-Mundhiri, “The Distilled” by the Kuwaiti Abdul Hadi Al-Jamil, “Do, Yek” by the Syrian Rawaa Sunbul, and “Drunk on a Bicycle.” By Moroccan Ismail Ghazali.
Each shortlisted competitor received $5,000 before the winner was announced today in the presence of a large group of publishers, writers, and intellectuals.
The head of the jury, Dr. Shahla Al-Ajili, stated that the competition in this session was intense, due to the high artistic level of the participating works and the diversity of their creative paths.
According to Al-Ajili, “The selected shortlisted collections were distinguished by the ability of their creators to represent the art of storytelling, whether classical or experimental, and by the presence of works that adopted the art of storytelling to narrate the everyday, or refracting time to create a state of illusion of the strange and fantastic, or using a single theme in multiple plots, in addition to storytelling within A frame story and a simulation of popular heritage.
The committee had set its own technical criteria for selecting the deserving groups, including: the quality and novelty of the text structure, the extent of its creativity, the eloquence of the language as required by the art of storytelling, in addition to the quality of the artistic treatment, and the textual space enjoying privacy, or its openness to different cultural horizons.
During the past month, multiple and lengthy meetings, discussions, and deliberations took place among the committee members to arrive at the most important short story collections that deserve to be on the short list for the award, in order to arrive at a qualitative creative achievement to represent the art of the Arabic short story.
The “short story” suffers from a lack of hospitality in the world of Arab awards at the time of the dominance of the novel, even though it (the short story developed in the Arab world during the sixties of the last century and reached its peak of prosperity in the eighties, as Arab critics say.
The Arabic short story has a unique character and originality that reflects the particularities and concerns of societies, which distances it from being merely a copy of its Western counterpart, according to critics.
Earlier, the Kuwaiti writer Talib Al-Rifai, founder and director of the Cultural Forum and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the “Al-Multaqa Prize for the Arab Short Story,” considered that the award – in which Arab writers and writers compete – presents a creative project and a “bright and different face” to the Arab world and the Arab writer. other in the world.
The award emerged from the Cultural Forum, which is a cultural salon founded in 2011, in which a number of Kuwaiti writers and artists participate, and is held in the home of Al-Rifai, a Kuwaiti storyteller and novelist who works as a visiting professor to teach creative writing at the American University of Kuwait. The award’s organizers aspire to establish a partnership with an international award. Like the French Goncourt or the American Pulitzer, which raises the award and moves it from being a Kuwaiti Arab cultural project to being an international Arab cultural project.
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