Award Objectives

Honor intellectuals, researchers, and authors, who have made significant contributions to modern-day literature, social sciences. culture and knowledge.

Award Objectives

Honor prominent figures who have made outstanding achievements at a regional and international level, and informing readers about them in the context of creativity and innovative thought.

Award Objectives

Appreciate the important role of translators in enriching culture and promoting cross-national dialogue. 

Award Objectives

Encourage creativity of youth, and motivate them to research, and create a spirit of positive competition in this vital sector that represents the nation’s present and future

Award Objectives

Honor institutions, commissions, research centers, Arab and international publishing houses that represent an inventive cultural project that caters for creativity, and promote the human values of dialogue and tolerance.

Award Objectives

Encourage children and adolescent’s literature, which seeks to develop this important segment of society, and their aesthetic taste, and constructs their cultural identity on the foundation of creative interaction between the past and present.

Abu Dhabi, 17 Dec 2024

19th Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Longlists for Translation, Contribution to the Development of Nations, and Literary and Art Criticism Categories

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) has announced the longlists for the Translation, Contribution to the Development o ...

Abu Dhabi, 06 Dec 2024

19th Sheikh Zayed Book Award Unveils Longlists for Literature, Young Author, Children’s Literature, and Editing of Arabic Manuscripts Categories

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA), organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), announced the longlists for its 2024-2025 edition in the ...

Abu Dhabi, 17 Nov 2024

Sheikh Zayed Book Award Reading Panel Receives Over 4,000 Submissions from 75 Countries for Award’s 19th Edition

Organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), the 19th Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) received over 4,000 submissions from 75 countries, 20 Arab states and 55 other nations, including five countries participat ...