06-04-2007, 08:32 AM

Abu Dhabi: The International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced yesterday with the support of the Emirates Foundation, UAE's philanthropic organisation, in association with the UK's Booker Prize Foundation.
The annual prize, set to be awarded in 2008 for the first time, is only designed for prose fiction, and will award $60,000 (about Dh220,344) to the winner, and $10,000 (about Dh36,724) to each of the five runners-up.
Dr Peter Clark, representative of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that the prize is also designed to encourage translation and publication of Arabic language literature into other major languages.
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