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The Adab Fest Getz Pharma Prize seeks to promote excellence in fiction written in English and comes with Rs 300,000. The jury comprises eminent Pakistani critics, writers, scholars, and publishers.
Winner: 2019 Adab Festival Pakistan Getz Pharma Award
Kamila Shamsie for Home Fire
Short List: 2019 Adab Fest Getz Pharma Prize
Bina Shah for Before She Sleeps
Kamila Shamsie for Home Fire
Mohammed Hanif for Red Birds
Zarrar Said for Pureland
Long List: 2019 Adab Fest Getz Pharma Prize
A K Asif for Hell! No Saints in Paradise
Bina Shah for Before She Sleeps
Kamila Shamsie for Home Fire
Mohammed Hanif for Red Birds
Osama Siddique for Snuffing out the Moon
Sadia Abbas for The Empty Room
Sheheryar Sheikh for The Still Point of the Turning World
Sabyn Javeri for Nobody Killed Her
Zarrar Said for Pureland
Jury: 2019 Adab Fest Getz Pharma Prize
Nadya Qamar Chishty Mujahid, Omar Shahid Hamid, Hoori Noorani
Eligibility Criteria for the 2019 Adab Fest Getz Pharma Prize
• No translations. Original works must have been written in English.
• Authors must be Pakistani, or of Pakistani-origin
• The book must have been published in 2017 or 2018
• Books can be published by any publisher worldwide (including self-published)
•Only books written by one author are eligible. Multi-author books, and anthologies are not eligible
Submission Guidelines
Critics and readers are welcome to suggest books to the Adab Fest Secretariat. Publishers or authors should submit four copies of each book. The submission deadline for the 2019 prize is 10 January 2019.
Adab Fest Secretariat
43/7/H Block 6, PECHS, Karachi 75400
Email: ameena.saiyid@adabfest.com
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