Excellent performance: Joy as Nigerian Al-Fulany wins best Arabic literary award in Morocco
- Adam Abdurrrahman Al-Fulany, a Nigerian scholar of Arabic literature, has been declared the winner of the 2022 Arabic literature prize in Morocco
- The award, which is being sponsored by the Eyes of Arabic Literature Forum (Uyoon El-Adab El-Arabi) In Morocco, will be presented to Al-Fulany on November 1
- The Nigerian scholar is being recognised for his contribution to creative and academic writings, which cut across fiction, literary criticism, biographies, plays etc
A Nigerian, Adam Abdurrahman Al-Fulany, has won the 2022 best price in Arabic literature by Eyes of Arabic Literature Forum (Uyoon El-Adab El-Arabi) In Morocco.
The Nigerian Arabic scholar is being recognised for his contribution to creative and academic writings, which cut across fiction, literary criticism, biographies, plays, religion, culture and critical discourses, Legit.ng learnt.
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Al-Fulany will receive the prize at the 12th annual award of the Uyoon El-Adab El-Arabi on November 1 in Uyoon, Morocco.
Who is Al-Fulany?
The scholar won the best Arabic Black African literature award at the annual Hamsa International Festival for Arts and Literature in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, in 2021.
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He was nominated by the Nigerian Centre for Arabic Research for the international literary award.
Al-Fulany has been regarded as one of the most influential contemporary African Arabic literary writers.
Meet Romeo Oriogun, the young Nigerian that won $100,000 for brain work
Legit.ng earlier reported that Romeo Oriogun has won a $100,000 Nigeria prize for literature for the brain work of his poetry collection, titled "Nomad".
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, the chairman of the prize's advisory board, disclosed the winner in an award presentation ceremony for both the Nigeria Prize for Science and Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022.
Oriogun's work explores the hearts of minds of displaced Nigerians as it is focused on the theme of migration and displacement.
The poet had earlier been announced the winner of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize in 2007.
He was also a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and The Future Awards African Prize for Literature.
Source: Legit.ng
