Katara to honour winners of 10th Arabic Novel Prize next Thursday
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Doha: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) announced that the honoring of the 10th Katara Prize for Arabic Novel winners will be next Thursday, as...
Doha: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) announced that the honoring of the 10th Katara Prize for Arabic Novel winners will be next Thursday, as part of the Katara Arabic Novel Festival set to launch next Sunday until October 20.
The ceremony includes honouring the winners in the prize’s six categories (published novels, unpublished novels, young adult novels, unpublished historical novels, critical studies, and the Qatari novel).
The ceremony will be preceded by a symposium on the Arabic novel amidst the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as well as a workshop on young adult novels and fine art.
Katara Arabic Novel Festival is set to feature symposiums, dialogue sessions, and workshops that touch on the path of the Arabic novel and other cultural activities.
Topics that will be covered are fantasy in the Arabic novel, concepts, and applications in writing novels, the Qatari novel and its relationship to Arab criticism, the novel and society, the Arabic novel and social media networks, and the novel and alienation.