ABU DHABI, 23rd February, 2021 (WAM) — The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi’s (DCT Abu Dhabi) Arabic Language Centre, has announced that it has awarded its first Translation Grant of the year, which will see the novel Ikhtibar Al-Nadam (Remorse Test) translated into Ukrainian.
The grant for Syrian author Khalil Sweileh’s novel, which won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s Literature category in 2018, was awarded to Ukraine-based Nora-Druk Publishers as part of the efforts to support Arab writers in reaching a global audience.
“We are very pleased to announce that our first…