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The Lotus Prize for Literature (also known as Lotus International Reward for Literature or The Lotus Prize for African and Asian Literature) was a literary award presented annually to African and Asian authors by the Afro-Asian Writers' Association (also known as Association of Asian and African Writers).〔 The Bureau, as the Association was initially known, was founded in Sri Lanka in 1958.〔("Plain Talk" ), Mursi Saad El-Din, ''El-Ahram'', 2006.〕 In 1962 it moved to Cairo with Youssef El-Sebai elected general secretary.〔 The Bureau began to publish ''Lotus Magazine'', a forum for short-stories, poetry, review of books and literary essays.〔 The inaugural Lotus Prize was given in 1969 to Alex La Guma who was living in exile in London at the time.〔 After the assassination of its secretary-general, the Bureau moved to Beirut, then Tunisia, and finally came back to Cairo.〔 Lutfi El-Kholi became its secretary-general and when he died, the movement began to falter.〔 ==Selected winners== *1969 Alex La Guma *1970 Waleed Seif *1971 Sonomyn Udval *1972 Hiroshi Noma *1973 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o *1974 Youssef El-Sebai *1975 Kim Chi-Ha *1975 Ghassan Kanafani *1975 Chinua Achebe *1976 Faiz Ahmed Faiz *1977 Subhas Mukhopadhyay 〔(Subhas Mukhopadhyay, 1919- ), Library of Congress〕 *1978 Meja Mwangi〔(Meja Mwangi ), British Council Literature〕 *1978 Abd Alkareem Alkarmi (Abu Salma)〔(), Barghouti〕 *1979 Antonio Jacinto〔("News and Notes" ), ''PN Review'' 82, Volume 18 Number 2, November - December 1991.〕 *1980 Hussein Morowah (also spelled as Mroué)〔()〕 *1981 Bhisham Sahni〔(Bhisham Sahni, 1915- ), Library of Congress〕 *1981 Makoto Oda〔(''The Asahi Shimbun'' "Oda, writer and peace activist, dies at 75" 30 July 2007 )〕 *1982 Ataol Behramoglu〔(Overseas Guest Poets for TPF2008 )〕 *1983 José Craveirinha〔('America' in the Poetry of José Craveirinha ), ''English in Africa'', Vol. 31, No. 1, May, 2004. JSTOR〕 *Mahmoud Darwish〔(Mahmoud Darwish Biography )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lotus Prize for Literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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