São Paulo – Books published in English about Palestine can be submitted to the 11th Palestine Book Awards. The Awards are hosted by press monitoring organization Middle East Monitor (MEMO). MEMO is focused on spreading information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other issues in the Middle East.
All books must be published between June 2021 and May 2022 and nominated by publishers, authors, or chosen by the judges themselves. The organizers haven’t made public the deadline for entries, but the award winners will be announced in November.
Winning books will be chosen from several categories, including Academic, Translation, Creative, Memoir, and Social History. Books can be works of fiction or non-fiction, and multi-authored books will also be considered. Poetry anthologies will also be considered, although the publishing date restrictions do not apply in this case. Books must be either originally written in English, or a translated English edition must be readily available.
MEMO says the Awards promote existing books on Palestine as well as encouraging new authors to write about this sensitive but important topic with the aim of drawing attention to the cause of Palestine. The judges are intellectuals, authors, journalists and scholars from around the world.
The Palestine Book Awards 2021 winners were: A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East by Erik Skare, Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimer and Marcia Lynx Qualey (translator), and Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan.
Find out more on the website of the Awards.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
