Palestine Book Awards 2020 Winners Announced
The winners of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced this evening over zoom and streamed from different parts of the world to recognize and celebrate the work of authors and their contribution to the literature on the subject of Palestine.
The 9th PBA awards ceremony began with a keynote address by Dr Rima Khalaf, President of the Global Organisation Against Racial Discrimination and Segregation. Dr Khalaf discussed the impact of literature on the generations to come and the role Zionists played in trying to erase their wrongdoing through this form of art.
This was followed by a roundtable discussion with the shortlisted authors, hosted by Professor Eugene Rogan, St Anthony’s College, Oxford.
A total of 38 books were entered in this year’s competition, with seven books being shortlisted by a panel of expert judges. The awards were categorised as follows: Academic, Creative, and Lifetime Achievement Award.
2020 Winners are:
- Lifetime Achievement Award:
Finbarr Barry Flood (Editor)
There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata (Hirmer Verlag, Munich) - Creative Award:
Nathalie Handal
Life in a Country Album (University Of Pittsburgh Press) - Creative Award:
Susan Abulhawa
Against the Loveless World (Bloomsbury Circus) - Academic Award:
Rashid Khalidi
The hundred years' war on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Metropolitan Books/henry Holt & Company)
