Emirati receives Indian lifetime literary achievement award
Dr Shehab M Ghanem, winner of various literary awards, will receive the Lifetime Achievement award today, for translating poems from Arabic into Malayalam and vice-versa.
The UAE poet and author will be honoured for his immense contribution to Malayalam literature. An established technocrat and an engineer by profession, Dr Ghanem is known in the Kerala community here as an author, poet and translator, who has written about 60 books.
The award is being proffered by Chiranthana Samskarika Vedi, a socio-cultural organization in association with UAE Exchange, which announced its first literary awards in 2016.
“K P Noorudeen, a socio-political personality from Kerala will also be honoured with the lifetime literary award along with Dr Shehab Ghanem,” said Gopa Kumar Bhargavan, Chief Marketing Officer, UAE Exchange.
The literary awards are part of the Chiranthana Samskarika Vedi’s 15th anniversary celebrations.