Turjuman Award

Turjuman Award
Awarded forForeign-language translations of Arabic works
Sponsored bySharjah Book Authority
LocationSharjah
CountryUnited Arab Emirates
Presented bySharjah Book Authority
RewardAED 1.4 million
First award2017
Websitesibf.com/en/awards/turjuman-award

The Turjuman Award, also known as the Sharjah Translation Award "Turjuman", is an international translation award presented by the Sharjah Book Authority in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The award is associated with the Sharjah International Book Fair and is given for foreign-language translations of works originally published in Arabic.[1][2]

History and purpose

The award was launched by the Sharjah Book Authority under the directives of Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, ruler of Sharjah, as part of the cultural programme of the Sharjah International Book Fair.[1] According to the organisers, the award aims to support the translation of Arabic and Arab-Islamic intellectual, cultural and creative works into other languages, and to encourage international publishers to make Arabic literature and thought available to wider readerships.[1][2]

The award is open to Arab and international publishing houses that have published foreign-language translations of works originally issued in Arabic.[1] Submissions are evaluated according to criteria including language quality, the significance of the subject, the added value of the translation, accuracy, terminological precision, and adherence to scholarly and linguistic standards.[1]

Award value

The total value of the Turjuman Award is AED 1.4 million. Of this amount, AED 100,000 is awarded to the translator of the winning work, while AED 1.3 million is allocated to the publishers. According to the award rules, 70 percent of the publishers' share goes to the foreign publishing house that holds the translation rights for the winning book, and 30 percent goes to the Arab publishing house that holds the rights to the original Arabic edition.[1]

Winners

Year Winning publisher Winning translator Translated work Original work Language
2017 Editorial Verbum Salvador Peña Martín Las mil y una noches One Thousand and One Nights Spanish[3][4]
2018 Actes Sud Hala Kodmani Du despotisme et autres textes Ṭabāʾiʿ al-istibdād by Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi French[5]
2019 Edizioni E/O Barbara Teresi Una piccola morte Mawt ṣaghīr by Mohammed Hasan Alwan Italian[6]
2021 Editora Tabla Michel Sleiman Onze Astros Aḥada ʿashara kawkaban by Mahmoud Darwish Portuguese[7]
2022 Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino Arturo Monaco L'Introduzione alla traduzione araba dell'Iliade Sulaymān al-Bustānī's introduction to his Arabic translation of Homer's Iliad Italian[8][9]
2023 Unionsverlag Hartmut Fähndrich Das Halsband der Tauben Ṭawq al-ḥamām by Raja Alem German[10][11]
2024 Alfa Publishing Mehmet Hakkı Suçin Güvercin Gerdanlığı Ṭawq al-ḥamāmah by Ibn Hazm Turkish[12][13]
2025 Academia Publishing House Ondřej Beránek Cesta z Baghdádu k volžským Bulharům: 921–922 Account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan Czech[14][15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Turjuman Award". Sharjah International Book Fair. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Translation Grants and Awards for Books and Publishers". Publishers Weekly. 20 October 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  3. ↑ Anderson, Porter (2 November 2017). "Sharjah's Book Fair Opening Stresses Publishing's 'Light in the Darkness'". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  4. ↑ Gómez Rodríguez, Pilar (2 November 2017). "Las mil y una noches, traducida por Salvador Peña". Estandarte (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  5. ↑ Mazin, Cécile (7 November 2018). "Actes Sud, lauréat du prix Turjuman doté de 215 000 € pour une traduction". ActuaLitté (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Le Edizioni E/O vincono il "Turjuman Award", il premio per la traduzione dal valore più alto al mondo". Edizioni E/O (in Italian). 30 October 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  7. ↑ Campos Lima, Eduardo (11 November 2021). "Brazilian publisher wins Sharjah translation prize". Arab News. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "Sultan bin Ahmed honours SIBF 2022 award-winners". Sharjah Government Media Bureau. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  9. ↑ "A 150 anni dalla nascita di Carlo Alfonso Nallino". Med-Or (in Italian). 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  10. ↑ "Sultan Al Qasimi inaugurates SIBF 2023". Sharjah24. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  11. ↑ "Turjuman Translation Award für Unionsverlag und Übersetzer Hartmut Fähndrich". Unionsverlag (in German). 1 November 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  12. ↑ Ahmed, Ashfaq (7 November 2024). "Bodour Al Qasimi honours winners of SIBF Awards". Gulf News. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Ercan, Özge. "2024 Turjuman Çeviri Ödülü Mehmet Hakkı Suçin'in". Mikroscope (in Turkish). Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "Sharjah Ruler opens 44th Sharjah International Book Fair". Sharjah Government Media Bureau. 5 November 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  15. ↑ "Překlad cestopisu od Ondřeje Beránka získal významné arabské ocenění". Akademie věd České republiky (in Czech). 12 November 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2026.
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