Abdelfatah Kilita receives the King Faisal Award for Arabic Language and Literature

Moroccan author and critic Abdelfatah Kilita received the King Faisal Prize for Arabic Language and Literature (2023 version) for his work “Historic Arabic Narrative and Trendy Theories”.

A professor on the Mohammed V College in Rabat, the Moroccan critic was awarded for his “glorious interpretation of historic Arabic tales via meticulous analysis (…) and for his potential to current Arabic historical past to a large viewers. clearly and exactly,” the jury emphasised.

Abdelfatah Kilita is an Arabic- and French-speaking author and critic who has labored arduous to revive Arabic literary research, to which he has devoted a number of books. A lot of his works have been translated into different languages ​​resembling English, Spanish and Italian.

Kilita has additionally participated in lots of colloquiums and conferences on Arabic and French literature as a part of conferences and cultural dialogues organized in Morocco and overseas. He has additionally received a number of awards within the area of criticism and literary research.

The overall worth of the award within the 5 classes of the King Faisal Award is $1 million. They’re awarded yearly to scientists, intellectuals and writers who’ve made scientific contributions for the advantage of humanity. Completely different classes: medication, science, Islamic research, Arabic language and literature and repair of Islam.

The Faisal Prize was first awarded in 1979. Since then, 282 researchers and scientists from 44 nations have turn into its laureates, together with 22 Nobel Prize laureates.