It is a cultural manifestation that affects the book and literature, initiated by ATB, this banking institution which organizes an Arab meeting annually around the book for children, in homage to a great Tunisian man in literature, Mustapha Azzouz, since 2009.
For this year, 12 Arab countries participated in this competition, while the event included workshops, round tables around topical subjects and issues on children’s literature.
During the award ceremony held on April 24, in a hotel in the square, a fairly numerous presence was recorded and the interventions were very profitable for those interested in our future generations, and this, in the light of the deep transformations that take place in Arab society; Which was, moreover, the theme of this 6th edition, “the challenges of children’s literature in light of the changes present”.
That said, the speakers in this demonstration tried to provide answers to these issues, taking into consideration the role they are proclaimed to “save” this childhood.
The 1st prize at the Syrian Ghomar Mahmoud
And the content of these literary productions for this fragile category goes precisely in the sense of a “awareness”, on their scale, faced with these challenges and these disturbances experienced around the world, to this opacity of the future, the boundaries no longer having any meaning because all the children of the world suffer …
As advanced above, participation was quite rich, especially on the part of our brothers from these countries in crisis. Syria sister once again marked its presence by winning the first prize thanks to the writer Ghomar Mahmoud for his tale “Rihlat Assafina Chems” (“Le Voyage du Bateau Soleil”). While Palestine was at the heart of the event through the tale of the Jordanian Mohamed Ahmed Abdeljaouad Dhaher “Farachatène Min Falastine” (“Two Palestine butterflies”).
The 3rd Prize in Tunisians Mohamed Aït Mihoub and Lotfi Hajlaoui
As for the third prize, it was divided between the two Tunisian writers, Mohamed Aït Mihoub and Lotfi Hajlaoui for their two respective tales “Taer maksour al-Janah Youhallikou fi aâli Assama” (“The bird with a broken wing flying in the distant sky”) and “Hopuroub bila aâda” (“wars without enemies”).
The jury has, on the other hand, decided not to award the price for novices, the tales written by children whose number and quality have not reached those of previous editions.
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