2016

In the category Arabic to Spanish:
First prize (100,000 USD):
SALVADOR PEÑA MARTÍN
For the translation of Mil y una noches in four volumes
EDITORIAL Verbum -, Madrid
Second prize (60,000 USD):
IGNACIO FERRANDO
For the Translation of Azazel – Youssef Ziedan
EDITORIAL Turner – Madrid
Third prize (40,000 USD):
MAHMUD SOBH
For the editing and translation of El diván de la poesía Árabe oriental y Andalusí
EDITORIAL Visor Libros – Madrid
In the category Spanish to Arabic:
First prize (100,000 USD):
SALEH ALMANI
For the Translation of Diez mujeres – Marcela Serrano
Bloomsbury – Qatar Foundation
Second prize (60,000 USD):
SULAYMĀN AL `AṬṬĀR
For the Translation of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha
al Markaz al Qawmī li-al-Tarjama – Cairo
(A Special Prize on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of DON MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
Third prize (40,000 USD):
`ALĪ IBRĀHĪM MENŪFĪ
For the Translation of Hatshapsut: de reina a Faraón de Egipto
Teresa Bedman – Francisco J. Martín Valentín
al Markaz al Qawmī li-al-Tarjama – Cairo
In the category Arabic to English:
First prize (100,000 USD):
Michael Cooperson
For the translation of Virtues of the Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal – Ibn al-Jawzī
Library of Arabic Literature–New York University Press
In the category English to Arabic:
First prize (100,000):
MURĀD TADGHŪT
For the Translation of Arabic Manuscripts: A Vademecum for Readers – Adam Gacek
Ma`had al-Makhṭūṭāt al-`Arabiyah – Cairo
Second prize (60,000 USD):
ḤASAN ḤILMĪ
For the translation of The Cantos of Ezra Pound (selections) –Personae: Collected Shorter Poems (selections)
al Markaz al Qawmī li-al-Tarjama – Cairo
Third prize (40,000 USD):
MUṢṬAFA MUḤAMMAD `ABD ALLAH QĀSIM
For his translation of Constantinople – City of the World’s Desire 1453-1924 – Philip Mansel
al Majlis al Waṭanī li-al-Thaqāfah wa al Funūn wa al Ādāb – Kuwait
In the category of achievement:
(100,000 USD each)
CASA ÁRABE – Madrid, Córdoba – Spain
BANIPAL PUBLISHING – London – UK
IBN TUFAYL FOUNDATION FOR ARABIC STUDIES – Almería – Spain