Lotus Prize for Literature

The Lotus Prize for Literature (also known as Lotus International Reward for Literature or The Lotus Prize for African and Asian Literature) was a literary award presented annually to African and Asian authors by the (also known as ).^[1]

The Bureau, as the association was initially known, was founded in Sri Lanka in 1958.^[2] In 1962, it moved to Cairo, with Youssef El-Sebai elected general secretary.^[2] The Bureau began to publish a magazine, Lotus, a forum for short-stories, poetry, book reviews, and literary essays.^[2] The inaugural Lotus Prize was given in 1969 to Alex La Guma, who was living in exile in London at the time.^[3] After the assassination of its secretary-general, the Bureau moved to Beirut, then Tunisia, and finally came back to Cairo.^[2] Former Arab League secretary-general became its secretary-general and when he died, the movement began to falter.^[2]

Selected winners[]

1969 Alex La Guma^[3]
1969 Mahmoud Darwish^[4]
1970 ^[5]
1971 Sonomyn Udval^[5]
1972 Hiroshi Noma^[6]
1973 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o^[7]
1974 ^[8]
1975 Kim Chi-Ha^[1]
1975 Ghassan Kanafani^[9]
1975 Chinua Achebe
1976 Faiz Ahmed Faiz^[10]
1977 Subhas Mukhopadhyay^[11]
1978 Meja Mwangi
1978 Abd Alkareem Alkarmi (Abu Salma)^[12]
1979 Antonio Jacinto^[13]^[14]
1980 Hussein Morowah (also spelled as Mroué)^[15]
1981 Bhisham Sahni^[16]
1981 Makoto Oda^[17]
1982 Ataol Behramoglu^[18]
1983 José Craveirinha^[19]
1986 Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh^[20]^[21]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Arana, R. Victoria (2008). The Facts on File companion to world poetry: 1900 to the present. Infobase Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-8160-6457-1. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Mursi Saad El-Din (2006-04-20). "Plain Talk—". AL-AHRAM. Archived from the original on 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
^ ^a ^b Parekh, Pushpa Naidu; Jagne, Siga Fatima (1998). Postcolonial African writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Mahmoud Darwish Biography
^ ^a ^b Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1973. p. 194. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1976. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Rollyson, Carl Edmund; Magill, Frank Northen (June 2003). Critical Survey of Drama: Jane Martin - Lennox Robinson. Salem Press. p. 2466. ISBN 978-1-58765-107-6. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1976. p. 156. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Mattar, Phillip (2005). Facts on File Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. pp. 275–276. ISBN 9780816069866.
^ Arana, R. Victoria (2008). The Facts on File companion to world poetry: 1900 to the present. Infobase Publishing. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8160-6457-1. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Subhas Mukhopadhyay, 1919-, Library of Congress
^ Abu Salma by Barghouti
^ "News and Notes", PN Review 82, Volume 18 Number 2, November - December 1991.
^ "Meja Mwangi". Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
^ "Hussein Morowah". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
^ Bhisham Sahni, 1915-, Library of Congress
^ The Asahi Shimbun "Oda, writer and peace activist, dies at 75" 30 July 2007
^ "Overseas Guest Poets for TPF2008". Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
^ 'America' in the Poetry of José Craveirinha, English in Africa, Vol. 31, No. 1, May, 2004. JSTOR
^ "National Yemen - Issue 02". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
^ "DR ABDULLAZIZ ALMAQALEH". مؤسسة سلطان بن علي العويس الثقافية. Retrieved 2019-12-30.

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[Arana2008-1] Arana, R. Victoria (2008). The Facts on File companion to world poetry: 1900 to the present. Infobase Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-8160-6457-1. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[elahram-2] Mursi Saad El-Din (2006-04-20). "Plain Talk—". AL-AHRAM. Archived from the original on 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2016-10-26.

[ParekhJagne1998-3] Parekh, Pushpa Naidu; Jagne, Siga Fatima (1998). Postcolonial African writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[4] Mahmoud Darwish Biography

[Writers1973a-5] Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1973. p. 194. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[Writers1976a-6] Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1976. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[RollysonMagill2003-7] Rollyson, Carl Edmund; Magill, Frank Northen (June 2003). Critical Survey of Drama: Jane Martin - Lennox Robinson. Salem Press. p. 2466. ISBN 978-1-58765-107-6. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[Writers1976b-8] Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1976. p. 156. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[9] Mattar, Phillip (2005). Facts on File Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. pp. 275–276. ISBN 9780816069866.

[Arana2008-2-10] Arana, R. Victoria (2008). The Facts on File companion to world poetry: 1900 to the present. Infobase Publishing. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-8160-6457-1. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[11] Subhas Mukhopadhyay, 1919-, Library of Congress

[12] Abu Salma by Barghouti

[13] "News and Notes", PN Review 82, Volume 18 Number 2, November - December 1991.

[14] "Meja Mwangi". Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2011-11-27.

[15] "Hussein Morowah". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2016-10-26.

[16] Bhisham Sahni, 1915-, Library of Congress

[17] The Asahi Shimbun "Oda, writer and peace activist, dies at 75" 30 July 2007

[18] "Overseas Guest Poets for TPF2008". Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2011-11-27.

[19] 'America' in the Poetry of José Craveirinha, English in Africa, Vol. 31, No. 1, May, 2004. JSTOR

[20] "National Yemen - Issue 02". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-12-30.

[21] "DR ABDULLAZIZ ALMAQALEH". مؤسسة سلطان بن علي العويس الثقافية. Retrieved 2019-12-30.

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