The Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication – Department of Culture announced the opening of applications for the 55th edition of the Morocco Book Prize for the year 2024.
A press release from the ministry specifies that this prize includes several categories, in this case, “Morocco Prize for poetry”, “Morocco Prize for narration”, “Morocco Prize for human sciences”, “Morocco Prize for sciences”. “, “Morocco Prize for literary, artistic and linguistic studies”, “Morocco Prize for translation”, “Morocco Prize for Amazigh literature”, “Morocco Prize for studies in the field of Amazigh culture” and “Morocco Prize for Literature for Children and Adolescents”.
Applications are open for Moroccan writers, poets, critics, researchers, thinkers and translators, for books published in Morocco or abroad in their first edition in 2023, in Arabic, in Amazigh, in Hassani expression or in foreign languages, and legally deposited.
Nominations are not open for books written by more than two authors, or for writers who have received this award in the last three years, the ministry said.
Also, applications must be submitted no later than October 21, 2024, in two stages, first through electronic registration via the platform dedicated to this purpose (http://prixlivre.minculture.gov.ma) while printing the registration receipt, before sending the paper file to the Registry Office at the Directorate of Books, Libraries and Archives, at 17 Rue Michlifen, Agdal, Rabat, consisting of the electronic registration receipt and eight copies of the book nominated for the Prize.
Concerning the Morocco Prize for translation, the file must include three copies of the book in the original version in addition to eight copies of the translated book, with the document justifying the translation rights.
Please note that candidates who have sent their books cannot request their return.
