In the unpublished novel category, Najeeb Nasr won the Katara Cultural Village Award for his novel "Half a Human" in equal shares with Al-Azhar Al-Zind from Tunisia for the novel "Al-Natour". Saeed Al-Alam from Morocco for the novel "The Virgin of Granada: Love between Two Cities", and Salem Mahmoud Salem from Egypt for the novel "It Happened in Alexandria." Ghazi Hussein Al-Ali from Syria for the novel "A black Mercedes that cannot be missed - a national comedy."