Overview
- Organizers announced Bakr as the inaugural winner on November 30 during the BRICS Art Festival held in Khabarovsk from November 26 to 30.
- The laureate is set to receive 1 million rubles, with the official award presentation scheduled to take place soon.
- Created in November 2024, the prize honors contemporary authors whose work reflects BRICS cultural and spiritual values and supports translation and cross‑publication.
- Each member formed a directorate and jury, three nominees per country fed a Brazil‑published longlist, a month of voting yielded a 10‑author shortlist unveiled in Jakarta.
- The shortlist spanned Brazil, India, China, the UAE, Ethiopia, South Africa, Indonesia, Russia (Alexey Varlamov), Iran, and Egypt, and Bakr said the award can help rebalance global literary attention.