• Translation from Arabic into English (200,000 USD)
• Translation from English into Arabic (200,000 USD)
• Translation from Arabic into Turkish (200,000 USD)
• Translation from Turkish into Arabic (200,000 USD)
• Achievement Award (200,000 USD)

Achievement Awards:
The value of each one of these awards is a maximum of (US$100.000).

• Translation from Arabic into Bahasa Indonesia 
• Translation from Bahasa Indonesia into Arabic 
• Translation from Arabic into Kazakh 
• Translation from Kazakh into Arabic
• Translation from Arabic into Romanian 
• Translation from Romanian into Arabic 
• Translation from Arabic into Swahili 
• Translation from Swahili into Arabic 
• Translation from Arabic into Vietnamese 
• Translation from Vietnamese into Arabic 

Rules of Submission

• Submission of entries will be announced in the early spring of each year.
• Nominations at present are limited to the fields of the humanities and the social sciences.
• Submissions can be made by individuals or institutions (publishing houses, research centres, translation institutes, university departments, etc.).
• All nominees must be living at the time of the announcement of the results.
• Only one translated work is accepted for nomination by individuals in the First Category. Institutions can nominate up to three works by three different translators, and all works by nominating/nominated institutions or individuals in all categories must not contain racist of offensive views.
• All nominated translations in the First Category must have been published in the five years prior to the announcement date of the Award.
• The Achievement Prizes are not subject to time limitation and can be awarded to a set of works/achievements of a lifetime.
• The Steering Committee has the right to nominate translators and/or translations that had not been nominated.
• The Steering Committee has the right to avail itself of the winning translations and translators in advertising, publicity and promotion of the Award.
• Winners of any SHATIU prize cannot be accepted for nomination again before the passage of five years.

* The exclusive jurisdiction of courts in the State of Qatar is applicable, and the Arabic text of the Award's Statute is adopted in the event of disagreement.

• Nominations are made as follows:
  • The nominating party should download and fill an official Nomination Form obtained from Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding official website (www.hta.qa/en)
  • Four copies of the original work and four copies of the translation (all non-returnable) should be sent to the following address:
    Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding
    P. O. Box 12231
    Doha, Qatar
    Tel : +974 66570349

Download the nomination form

Download the achievement award form

Judging Criteria:

• Significance of the translated work
  (30 points)
• The importance of the work in the source culture (15 points)
• Specific Discipline (7 points)
• General Cultural Sphere (8 points)
• The importance of the work in the target culture (15 points)
• Specific Discipline (7 points)
• General Cultural Sphere (8 points)
• Translation accuracy and precision
  (40 points)
• Retaining the content/spirit of the original text (15 points)
• Accuracy and consistency of idiomatic rendering (15 points)
• Additions (comments, footnotes/endnotes, bibliography, etc.) (5 points)
• Deletions (5 points)
• Translation stylistics and aesthetics
  (30 points)
• Language use (grammar, spelling, and diction) (15 points)
• Readability and smoothness of the translation (15 points)