Najib Nasr is considered the first Yemeni novelist to win the Katara Prize in the category of unpublished novels, which is the fourth prize in the overall types of the award, which began with the critic and academic Abdul Hamid Al-Hussami receiving the Critical Studies Prize in the third session in 2017 for his critical study “Representation of Ibn Arabi in the Narrative Imagination.” And in the category of studies concerned with novel research and criticism, a second prize was added to Yemen, where the Yemeni critic and academic Alawi Ahmed Saleh Al-Maljami won, for his study “The Cultural Construction of the Novelist World: The Semiotics of the Possible World in the Novel of the Happy Land of Conspiracies by Wajdi Al-Ahdal”, making it the fourth prize for Yemen. Which culminated in 2019 with the winning of the novelist Habib Abd al-Rabb Soruri (residing in France) with the Prize for Arabic Published Novels for his novel "Revelation".