The Sheikh Zayed Book Award continues to receive participations across all of its nine categories as the closure date for the nominations on the 1st of September draws close. With the wrap up of nominations phase, the reading panels will commence their activities for a period of three days to be followed by the Awards judging panels work to assess and evaluate the filtered works across all categories.

According to Dr. Ali Bin Tamim, Sheikh Zayed Book Awards Secretary General, Young Author topped the list with a share of 26% of total nominations received, followed by the Literature Category with 22%, and the Literary and Art Criticism category coming third with 12%. Meanwhile, Childrens Literature was fourth with 11% of total nominations, closely followed by of Best Contribution to the Development of Nations and Translation categories with 10% and 9% respectively. The Award received varying number of nominations in the rest of its categories.

Commenting on the recorded figures to date, Dr. Bin Tamim said: For the second year in a row, the Young Author category tops the rest in terms of share of total nominations received, which highlights our successful reach to all young intellectuals and academics throughout the world. We thrive to honor intellectuals, researchers, writers, and translators, both young and seasoned, who have made significant contributions in literature, social sciences and the culture and knowledge of modern age from all over the world. And we take it as our duty to introduce new talents to the Arab readers and encourage creativity of youth Bin Tamim continued.