The Turjuman Award, also known as the Sharjah Translation Award "Turjuman", is an international translation award presented by the Sharjah Book Authority in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The award is associated with the Sharjah International Book Fair and is given for foreign-language translations of works originally published in Arabic.
History and purpose The award was launched by the Sharjah Book Authority under the directives of Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, ruler of Sharjah, as part of the cultural programme of the Sharjah International Book Fair. According to the organisers, the award aims to support the translation of Arabic and Arab-Islamic intellectual, cultural and creative works into other languages, and to encourage international publishers to make Arabic literature and thought available to wider readerships.
The award is open to Arab and international publishing houses that have published foreign-language translations of works originally issued in Arabic. Submissions are evaluated according to criteria including language quality, the significance of the subject, the added value of the translation, accuracy, terminological precision, and adherence to scholarly and linguistic standards.
Award value The total value of the Turjuman Award is AED 1.4 million. Of this amount, AED 100,000 is awarded to the translator of the winning work, while AED 1.3 million is allocated to the publishers. According to the award rules, 70 percent of the publishers' share goes to the foreign publishing house that holds the translation rights for the winning book, and 30 percent goes to the Arab publishing house that holds the rights to the original Arabic edition.
Winners
Year Winning publisher Winning translator Translated work Original work Language 2017 Editorial Verbum Salvador Peña Martín Las mil y una noches One Thousand and One Nights Spanish 2018 Actes Sud Hala Kodmani Du despotisme et autres textes Ṭabāʾiʿ al-istibdād by Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi French 2019 Edizioni E/O Barbara Teresi Una piccola morte Mawt ṣaghīr by Mohammed Hasan Alwan Italian 2021 Editora Tabla Michel Sleiman Onze Astros Aḥada ʿashara kawkaban by Mahmoud Darwish Portuguese 2022 Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino Arturo Monaco L'Introduzione alla traduzione araba dell'Iliade Sulaymān al-Bustānī's introduction to his Arabic translation of Homer's Iliad Italian 2023 Unionsverlag Hartmut Fähndrich Das Halsband der Tauben Ṭawq al-ḥamām by Raja Alem German 2024 Alfa Publishing Mehmet Hakkı Suçin Güvercin Gerdanlığı Ṭawq al-ḥamāmah by Ibn Hazm Turkish 2025 Academia Publishing House Ondřej Beránek Cesta z Baghdádu k volžským Bulharům: 921–922 Account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan Czech
See also Sharjah International Book Fair Sharjah Book Authority Literary translation Arabic literature
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