
Naji Naaman Literary Prizes 2025
(85 new prize winners)
With 4321 competitors from 92 countries, writing in 41 languages and
dialects, the twenty third picking season of Naji Naaman literary prizes (2025)
rewarded 85 new prize winners, i.e.:
Merit prizes:
Chen Yue Zhao (New Zealand/China);
Essaid Manssouri (Morocco);
Mohamed Gassara (Tunisia);
And, out of competition:
Durga Sasi Kiran Vellamcheti (India).
Creativity prizes:
Abdullah Troshupa (Kosovo);
Ahmed Miqdad (Palestine);
Ahmed Tail (Egypt);
Angela Kosta (Albania/Italy);
Anđela Milinković (Serbia);
Aqdas Abdallah Nouri (Iraq/France);
Brajesh Kumar Gupta (India);
Cao Shui (China);
Cinzia Demi (Italy);
Denis Koch (France);
Dilorom Ergash (Uzbekistan);
Dražen Jergović (Croatia);
Edin Sarić (Bosnia & Herzegovina);
Elena Vizir (Moldova);
Emelj Tuna (North Macedonia);
Eser Ceran Erdi (Turkey);
Go’zal Begim (Uzbekistan);
Haijiao Haitang (China);
Hassane Yarti (Morocco);
Iakovos Theras Karamolegkos (Greece);
Ioana Burghel (Romania);
Ionuţ Calotă (Romania);
Julia Santibáñez (Mexico);
Leng Xianqiao (China);
Mallé Barry (Senegal);
Marie-Josée Rizkallah (Lebanon);
Mariela Cordero (Venezuela);
Midhat Ajanovic (Bosnia/Sweden);
Mohammad Fathi Al-Miqdad (Syria/Jordan);
Monica Guerra (Italy);
Naila Hina (Pakistan);
Natasha Sardzoska (North Macedonia);
Olga Levadnaya (Russia/Tatarstan);
Oumou Kantome Diallo (Senegal);
Parme Ceriset (France);
Priyanka Neogi (India/West Bengal);
Said Boudabbouz (Morocco);
Sandrine Davin (France);
Slavica Gadžova Sviderska (North Macedonia);
Slavica Pejović (Serbia);
Snežana Marko-Musinov (Serbia);
Ştefan Teodor Cabel (Romania);
Su Yun (China);
Tamali Neogi (India/West Bengal);
Vatsala Radhakeesoon (Mauritius);
Yusuf Rasul (Uzbekistan/Tajikistan/Sweden);
And, out of competition:
Liudmila Quincoses (Cuba);
Muhammad Sami ‘Adli Al-Qadi (Egypt).
Honor prizes (for complete works):
Ali Abd Elmoniem (Egypt);
Alicja Maria Kuberska (Poland);
Annie Chassing (France);
Balázs F. Attila (Hungary);
Basilio Fiorentino (Italy);
Christos Belles (Greece);
Dana Neri (Italy/United Kingdom);
Diane Robert (Canada/Quebec);
Émile Munzir (Lebanon);
Évelyne Parisse (France);
Faleeha Hassan (Iraq);
Fei Yifei (China);
Francisco Muñoz Soler (Spain);
Gladys Mercedes Acevedo (Argentina);
Gordona Sarić (Montenegro);
Guadalupe Elizalde (Mexico);
Harutyun Harutyunyan (Armenia/Spain);
Hegumen Paisiy Savosin (Russia);
Hitoshi Namino (Japan);
Ion Cristofor (Romania);
Izza Fartmis (Morocco);
Jeffrey Levett (United Kingdom);
John Sheng (Australia/China);
José Ramón Ripoll (Spain);
Mercedes Andara Gómez (Nicaragua);
Mohammad Chiki (Morocco);
Mohammed ‘Attaf (Algeria);
Saadeh Abu Iraq (Palestine);
Visar Zhiti (Albania/Italy);
And, out of competition:
Mirjana Štefanicki Antonić (Serbia);
Salim Babullaoghlu (Azerbaijan).
Genius prize:
Granted for the sixth time since the launching of the prizes in 2002
Nguyễn Khánh Chi Kaitlyn (Kaitlyn Nguyễn), the youngest competitor and laureate
ever (11 years old, Vietnam).
Exceptional prize:
Granted for the second time since the launching of the prizes in 2002
Wahib Nadim Wehbé (Palestine), laureate for the third time after 2006 (NNLP,
HPCW) and 2012 (NNTLP, Naji Naaman Targeted Literary Prizes, Archbishop Nicolas
Naaman Prize for Human Virtues).
供稿: 黎巴嫩纳吉·阿曼国际文学奖主委会