The Steering Committee of Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (SHATIU) has extended deadline for submissions for the sixth edition of the award until August 15, 2020.

In a statement yesterday, the Committee noted that its decision considered the conditions the world is going through as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in order to give an opportunity for translators from around the world to compete in the award categories.

For this year, SHATIU chose the Persian language as a second major language alongside English, and chose five new languages in the achievement category, which are: Pashto, Bengali, Swedish, Korean and Hausa.

Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding was founded in Doha in 2015. It is an international prize run by a board of trustees, a steering committee and independent panels of judges. The total value of the award is $2m.

The Award seeks to honour translators and acknowledge their role in strengthening the bonds of friendship and cooperation amongst peoples and nations of the world. It hopes to reward merit and excellence, encourage creativity, uphold the highest moral and ethical standards, and spread the values of diversity, pluralism and openness.

The Award also aspires to inculcate a culture of knowledge and dialogue, promote Arab and Islamic culture, develop international understanding, and encourage mature cross-cultural interaction between Arabic and other world languages through the medium of translation.

Source : The Peninsula

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