The winners of the prestigous Nile Award for 2012 have just been announced: they are renowned late author Ibrahim Aslan in the field of literature, talented script writer Waheed Hamed, and social scientist Mohamed El-Gowhary.
The award, which comes with a LE400,000 gift, is the highest literary honour given by the state and was previously awarded to late author Naguib Mahfouz.
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