Awarded by the American Book Fest in Los Angeles, the awards have 70 genre-specific categories, and the 2021 awards recognise books published in 2019-2021. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest, said:
The 2021 results represent a phenomenal mix of books from a wide array of publishers throughout the United States.
I’m very proud to have received this award for Song of the Nile, my eighth novel and one that is very close to my heart as it is set in my homeland, Egypt.