Honour List Celebration
October 17, 2012
PBBY and Tamer Institute for Community Education organized a celebration in honour of Palestinian writers, illustrators and translators whose works deserved the IBBY Honour-list for the years 2010-2012. This took place during the Palestinian book fair in Ramallah.
Those who were honoured were:
= Writers Honor List: My Guerre Name is a Butterfly (Ismi al-haraki farasheh) Author Ahlam Bsharat Illustrated by: Bashar al-Hroub.
= Illustrators Honor List: Omar and Haha (Omar wa Haha) illustrations by Dima Abu al-Hajj written by Safa Ameer.
= Translators Honor List: Barsakh- (Barzakh: Emily wa Samou’il) Translator Zakieh Khierhum (Author: Simon Stranger - original language Norwegian)
The celebration took place at the International Palestinian Book Fair in Ramallah and was attended by the honorees, their families and PBBY members and friends.