Yahya Nuaimi presented with State Appreciation and Encouragement Award

AMMAN — Jordanian poet and novelist Yahya Nuaimi, also known as Amjad Naser, has been presented with the State Appreciation and Encouragement Award in the field of literature.

A Royal Decree issued last week, conferred the award on Nuaimiin light of his contributions to the literary field, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.

During a felicitation ceremony, attended by Prime Minister Omar Razzaz, Minister of Culture Mohammad Abu Rumman shed light on the writer’s “esteemed stature” in the Arab cultural scene “in view of what he has contributed to literature, thought, culture and poetry”.