• Translation from Arabic into English (200,000 USD)
• Translation from English into Arabic (200,000 USD)
• Translation from Arabic into Chinese (200,000 USD)
• Translation from Chinese into Arabic (200,000 USD)
• Achievement Award (200,000 USD)

Achievement Awards:
The value of each one of these awards is a maximum of (US$100.000).

• Translation from Arabic into Amharic 
• Translation from Amharic into Arabic 
• Translation from Arabic into Dutch 
• Translation from Dutch into Arabic
• Translation from Arabic into Modern Greek 
• Translation from Modern Greek into Arabic 
• Translation from Arabic into Urdu 
• Translation from Urdu into Arabic 

Rules of Submission

• Submission of entries will be announced in the early spring of each year.
• Nominations at present are limited to the fields of the humanities and the social sciences.
• Submissions can be made by individuals or institutions (publishing houses, research centres, translation institutes, university departments, etc.).
• All nominees must be living at the time of the nomination.
• Only one translated work is accepted for nomination by individuals in the First Category. Institutions can nominate up to three translated works by three different translators.
• All nominated translations in the First Category must have been published in the five years prior to the announcement date of the Award.
• The Achievement Prizes are not subject to time limitation and can be awarded to a set of works/achievements of a lifetime.
• The Steering Committee has the right to nominate translators and/or translations that had not been nominated.
• The Steering Committee has the right to avail itself of the winning translations and translators in advertising, publicity and promotion of the Award.
• Winners of any SHATIU prize cannot be accepted for nomination again before the passage of five years.
• Nominations are made as follows:
  • The nominating party should download and fill an official Nomination Form obtained from Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding official website (www.hta.qa/en)
  • Four copies of the original work and four copies of the translation (all non-returnable) should be sent to the following address:
    Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding
    P. O. Box 12231
    Doha, Qatar
    Tel : +974 66570349

Download the nomination form

Download the achievement award form

Judging Criteria:

• Significance of the translated work
  (30 points)
• The importance of the work in the source culture (15 points)
• Specific Discipline (7 points)
• General Cultural Sphere (8 points)
• The importance of the work in the target culture (15 points)
• Specific Discipline (7 points)
• General Cultural Sphere (8 points)
• Translation accuracy and precision
  (40 points)
• Retaining the content/spirit of the original text (15 points)
• Accuracy and consistency of idiomatic rendering (15 points)
• Additions (comments, footnotes/endnotes, bibliography, etc.) (5 points)
• Deletions (5 points)
• Translation stylistics and aesthetics
  (30 points)
• Language use (grammar, spelling, and diction) (15 points)
• Readability and smoothness of the translation (15 points)