The curtain has fallen on the Sharjah International Book Fair 2024

The Sharjah International Book Fair 2024

By Mohamed Rahal

The Emirates closes the curtain on the activities of the Sharjah Book Fair 2024

In its thirty-fourth edition, in Sharjah in Dubai, the Emirates witnessed the largest Arab international participation in the International Book Fair, with the participation of 112 countries and the International Book Fair in Sharjah in the Emirates in its 34th edition, which witnessed the participation of 112 countries, and nearly 1,300 activities, and 2,500 publishers, in various fields, including

The activities of the Sharjah Book Fair 2024 are not limited to displaying books and hosting authors, but a group of events and activities are organized for children and adults, and the exhibition is also keen to offer educational and entertaining activities for children that contribute to developing their abilities and discovering and developing the child's talent. Here are the most prominent of these events and activities:

Cultural events

Cultural events include holding seminars and dialogue sessions with novelists and thinkers, poetry evenings and training workshops.

Children's Activities

The exhibition provides a special section for children's books

Sharjah Book Fair 2024 pays great attention to children, as its management is keen to provide various activities presented by guests from around the world, to form an integrated mix of workshops in various cognitive, cultural and entertainment fields that enrich children's knowledge and bring out their latent energies. Therefore, Sharjah schools and nurseries are keen to attend and participate so that children can have a golden opportunity to learn and have fun at the same time during the Sharjah Book Fair 2024.

Social Media Station

This station is one of the valuable stations rich in culture and information that attracts influencers on social media.

Book Signing Corner

Get the chance to meet the author of your favorite book and get an autograph in the book signing corner. To view the names of the guests and their attendance times, you must visit the official Sharjah Book Fair 2024 website, specifically the Book Signing Corner section.

Sharjah Book Fair Awards

The Sharjah Book Fair includes several annual awards that motivate writers and honor creative writers. The awards include the following categories:

Sharjah Emirati Book Award with a total of AED 625,000, in 4 categories:

Fiction field

Literary creativity field

Studies field

First novel field

Best Foreign Book Award

Non-fiction and worth AED 50,000

Fiction and worth AED 50,000

Best Arabic Book Award in the novel field and worth AED 150,000

Publishing House Honor Award with a total of AED 75,000, in 3 categories:

Best Local Publishing House: AED 25,000

Best Arab Publishing House: AED 25,000

Best Foreign Publishing House: AED 25,000

Tarjuman Award or Sharjah Translation Award with a total value of AED 1.4 million

It was an opening to another thanks that linked translation and poetry, various books, and also new publications known in world literature as anthologies, in international translation in the field of international media and found in international exhibitions in the form of book publications in the form of collections or novels, and they include poetry more than novels, such as collecting writings from selected poems by poets from 5 continents and putting them in one new publication supervised or composed by international translators from different countries who have their mark, and the publication has international translations into different languages, such as the collection of Mansira Al-Siddiq by the Emirati writer Adel Khazam, a human epic that may also be close to competing in major international awards

Reporter: Mohamed Rahal