Lotus_Prize_for_Literature

Lotus Prize for Literature

Lotus Prize for Literature

International literary award

The Lotus Prize for Literature (also known as Lotus International Reward for Literature or The Lotus Prize for African and Asian Literature) is a literary award presented annually to African and Asian authors by the Afro-Asian Writers' Association (also known as Association of Asian and African Writers).[1] It was established in 1969 but cancelled in 1988.[2] During this period, the Soviet Union was the sponsor of the prize.[3] After this lengthy hiatus, in November 2019, it was reinstated following the renaming of the institution as the Writers' Union of Africa, Asia, and Latin American (WUAALA).[2]

The Bureau, as the association was initially known, was founded in Sri Lanka in 1958.[4] In 1962, it moved to Cairo, with Yusuf Sibai elected general secretary.[4] The Bureau began to publish a magazine, Lotus, a forum for short stories, poetry, book reviews, and literary essays.[4] The inaugural Lotus Prize was given in 1969 to Alex La Guma, who was living in exile in London at the time.[5] After the assassination of its secretary general, the Bureau moved to Beirut, then Tunisia, and finally back to Cairo.[4] Former Arab League secretary general Lutfi El-Kholi became its secretary general and when he died, the movement began to falter.[4]

Selected winners

References

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    Arana, R. Victoria (2008). The Facts on File companion to world poetry: 1900 to the present. Infobase Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-8160-6457-1. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
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    Maryam Fatima (August 2022). "Institutionalizing Afro-Asianism: Lotus and the (Dis) Contents of Soviet-Third World Cultural Politics". Comparative Literature Studies. 59 (3): 448. doi:10.5325/complitstudies.59.3.0447. S2CID 251852541.
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    Peter J. Kalliney (2022). The Aesthetic Cold War. Princeton, NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press. p. 7. doi:10.1515/9780691230641-005. ISBN 9780691230641.
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    Mursi Saad El-Din (20 April 2006). "Plain Talk". Al Ahram. Archived from the original on 25 April 2006. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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    Parekh, Pushpa Naidu; Jagne, Siga Fatima (1998). Postcolonial African writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5.
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    Mahmoud Darwish Biography
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    Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1973. p. 194. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
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    Lotus Prize for Literature. Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. 1976. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
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    Subhas Mukhopadhyay, 1919-, Library of Congress
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    Abu Salma by Barghouti
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    "News and Notes", PN Review 82, Volume 18 Number 2, November - December 1991.
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    "Meja Mwangi". Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
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    "Hussein Morowah". Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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    Bhisham Sahni, 1915-, Library of Congress
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    The Asahi Shimbun "Oda, writer and peace activist, dies at 75" 30 July 2007
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    'America' in the Poetry of José Craveirinha, English in Africa, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 2004. JSTOR
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    "Dr Abdulaziz Almaqaleh". مؤسسة سلطان بن علي العويس الثقافية. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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