The Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize First awarded in 2014 and by now a renowned yearly award, this prize is jointly organized by the Consulate General of Germany in Karachi and the Karachi Literature Festival. It comes with a cash award of 4500 euros divided amongst first, second and third prize-winners (3000, 1000 and 500 euros). The struggle for peace and tolerance is one of the most urgent issues almost everywhere in the word. The KLF German Peace Prize aims to recognize authors who contribute — on a small / local or on a large / international scale — to the causes of tolerance, interreligious relations, and peace. The jury comprises eminent Pakistanis as well as the German Consul General and Director of Goethe-Institute, the German cultural centre. • written by Pakistanis, or Pakistan - origin persons living anywhere worldwide, or people of any nationality resident in Pakistan • published in 2016 or 2017 by any publisher worldwide • anthologies and multi-author volumes are not eligible Submission Guidelines Critics and readers can suggest books to the KLF Secretariat. Publishers or authors should submit eight copies of each book by 31 October 2017 to: Karachi Literature Festival Secretariat Oxford University Press No. 38, Sector 15, Korangi Industrial Area Karachi 74900, Pakistan. Email: central.marketing.pk@oup.com Toll free: 0800-68775 ( 9 am to 5 pm Monday - Friday) Anam Zakaria for The Footprints of Partition (1st prize) Farahnaz Ispahani for Purifying the Land of the Pure (2nd prize) Ali Nobil Ahmad for Masculinity, Sexuality, and Illegal Migration (3rd prize) 2017 Short List for the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize Ali Nobil Ahmad for Masculinity, Sexuality, and Illegal MigrationFarahnaz Ispahani for Purifying the Land of the Pure Anam Zakaria for The Footprints of Partition 2017 Long List for the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Richard Garstang, Rina Saeed Khan for Water in the WildernessAli Nobil Ahmad for Masculinity, Sexuality, and Illegal Migration Ali Madeeh Hashmi for Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Farahnaz Ispahani for Purifying the Land of the Pure Raza Rumi for Fractious Path: Pakistan's Democratic Transition Azaz Syed for The Secrets on the War on Al-Qaeda Anam Zakaria for The Footprints of Partition 2017 Jury for the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize Syed Jaffar Ahmed, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Hamida Khuhro, I.A. Rehman, Ghazi Salahuddin 2016 Winners of the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize 1st prize: Muhammad Amir Rana for The Militant 2nd prize: Khizar Humayun Ansari for The Emergence of Socialist Thought among North Indian Muslims (1917-1947) 3rd prize: Rakhshanda Jalil's English translation of Intizar Husain's The Sea Lies Ahead 2016 Short List for the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize Anam Zakaria for The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis And Indians Farahnaz Ispahani for Purifying The Land of The Pure Khizar Humayun Ansari for The Emergence Of Socialist Thought Among North Indian Muslims (1917-1947) Lala Rukh Shaukat for Path of the Rose: Sufi Creed of Love (English Translation of Punjabi Sufi Poetry) Muhammad Amir Rana for The Militant: Development of A Jihadi Character in Pakistan Rakhshanda Jalil for the English translation of Intizar Husain's The Sea Lies Ahead Zubair Torwali for Muffled Voices: Longing For A Pluralistic And Peaceful Pakistan 2016 Jury for the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize 2015 Winners of the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize 1st prize: Ziauddin Sardar for Mecca and Ali Usman Qasmi for The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan 2nd prize: Moonis Ahmar for Conflict Management and Vision for a Secular Pakistan 3rd prize: Raza Rumi for Delhi by heart 2015 Short List of the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize Ali Usman Qasmi for The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan Moonis Ahmar for Conflict Management and Vision for a Secular Pakistan Raza Rumi for Delhi by heart Ziauddin Sardar for Mecca 2015 Jury for the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize 2014 Winner of the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize Akbar S. Ahmad for The Thistle and the Drone, (Brookings Press, 2013) 2014 Jury for the Karachi Literature Festival German Peace Prize Shahrukh Hasan, Rumana Husain, Hamida Khuhro, I. A. Rahman, Rasul Bakhsh Rais, Mira Sethi, Bina Shah. |