News from the future of the book: the Mediterranean Prize for Culture awarded to Ala Al-Aswani
“Il Futuro del Libro” (the Future of the Book), Italian blog on the world of books and creative publishing, reports the awarding of the Mediterranean Prize for Culture to the Egyptian writer Ala Al-Aswani, author of “The Yacoubian Building”. The Prize has been awarded on the 16th of March by Fondazione Mediterraneo, an international non-profit organisation which includes specialists, scholars and politicians who have been involved in Mediterranean affairs. Quoting the official reasons for the award, “Al-Aswani keeps on representing in his novels the contemporary Egyptian society, with all its social and psychological problems, in the way they come up in the clash of persons different for age, sex, and social position”. The book has first been published in 2002; since then, “The Yacoubian Building” has become the best seller book in the Arabic area (after the Koran). Il Futuro del Libro links to a complete interview of Al-Aswani by Maura Murizzi, published on threemonkeysonline.com.
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