Lotus Prize for Literature
The Lotus Prize for Literature (also known as Lotus International Reward for Literature or The Lotus Prize for African and Asian Literature) was a literary award presented annually to African and Asian authors by the Afro-Asian Writers' Association (also known as Association of Asian and African Writers).[1]
The Bureau, as the association was initially known, was founded in Sri Lanka in 1958.[2] In 1962, it moved to Cairo, with Youssef El-Sebai elected general secretary.[2] The Bureau began to publish Lotus Magazine, a forum for short-stories, poetry, book reviews, and literary essays.[2] The inaugural Lotus Prize was given in 1969 to Alex La Guma, who was living in exile in London at the time.[3] After the assassination of its secretary-general, the Bureau moved to Beirut, then Tunisia, and finally came back to Cairo.[2] Former Arab League secretary-general Lutfi El-Kholi became its secretary-general and when he died, the movement began to falter.[2]
Selected winners
- 1969 Alex La Guma[3]
- 1969 Mahmoud Darwish[4]
- 1970 Waleed Seif[5]
- 1971 Sonomyn Udval[5]
- 1972 Hiroshi Noma[6]
- 1973 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o[7]
- 1974 Youssef El-Sebai[8]
- 1975 Kim Chi-Ha[1]
- 1975 Ghassan Kanafani[9]
- 1975 Chinua Achebe
- 1976 Faiz Ahmed Faiz[10]
- 1977 Subhas Mukhopadhyay [11]
- 1978 Meja Mwangi
- 1978 Abd Alkareem Alkarmi (Abu Salma)[12]
- 1979 Antonio Jacinto[13][14]
- 1980 Hussein Morowah (also spelled as Mroué)[15]
- 1981 Bhisham Sahni[16]
- 1981 Makoto Oda[17]
- 1982 Ataol Behramoglu[18]
- 1983 José Craveirinha[19]
- 1986 Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh[20][21]
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References
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- ^ a b Parekh, Pushpa Naidu; Jagne, Siga Fatima (1998). Postcolonial African writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Mahmoud Darwish Biography
- ^ a b Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1973. p. 194. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1976. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Rollyson, Carl Edmund; Magill, Frank Northen (June 2003). Critical Survey of Drama: Jane Martin - Lennox Robinson. Salem Press. p. 2466. ISBN 978-1-58765-107-6. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1976. p. 156. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Mattar, Phillip. Facts on File Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. pp. 275–276.
- ^ Arana, R. Victoria (2008). The Facts on File companion to world poetry: 1900 to the present. Infobase Publishing. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8160-6457-1. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Subhas Mukhopadhyay, 1919-, Library of Congress
- ^ Abu Salma by Barghouti
- ^ "News and Notes", PN Review 82, Volume 18 Number 2, November - December 1991.
- ^ "Meja Mwangi". Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^ "Hussein Morowah". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ^ Bhisham Sahni, 1915-, Library of Congress
- ^ The Asahi Shimbun "Oda, writer and peace activist, dies at 75" 30 July 2007
- ^ "Overseas Guest Poets for TPF2008". Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ^ 'America' in the Poetry of José Craveirinha, English in Africa, Vol. 31, No. 1, May, 2004. JSTOR
- ^ "National Yemen - Issue 02". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ "DR ABDULLAZIZ ALMAQALEH". مؤسسة سلطان بن علي العويس الثقافية. Retrieved 2019-12-30.