Eighth picking season: 2009-2010.
Number of candidates and manuscripts: 1012.
Number of laureates: 47.
Received from the following fifty one countries: Albania - Algeria - Argentina - Bahrain - Barbados - Belgium - Bulgaria - Canada - China - Congo - Denmark - Egypt - France - Germany - Holland - Hungary - India - Indonesia - Iraq - Iran - Italy - Jordan - Kuwait - Lebanon - Libya - Lithuania - Mauritania - Moldavia - Montenegro - Morocco - Norway - Palestine - Paraguay - Portugal - Qatar - Romania – Russia - Saudi Arabia - Senegal - Serbia - Slovakia - Spain - Sweden - Syria - Trinidad & Tobago - Tunisia - Turkey - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom - United States of America - Uzbekistan.
Prizes’ yearbook in twenty eight languages and dialects: Albanian, Arabic (literary and spoken in several dialects), Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Iranian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Uzbek.

(Romania) Florina Isache
(Tunisia) Faisal Marrouki and Muhammad Bin ‘Achour
      (Egypt-Uzbekistan) Sa’id Al-Mughrabi
(Morocco) Ahmed Madkouri and Omar Koussih
(Egypt) Mahmud ‘Abdul-Qader and Muhammad Masraja
     (Morocco-France) Siham Al-Yandouzi
(Algeria) Isma’il Al-Qat’a (Elguetta)

(Montenegro) Andrija Radulovíc
(Romania) Constantin T. Ciubotaru, Mihaela Burlacu and George Bǎdǎrǎu
      (Belgium-Canada) Michel Dachy
(Spain) Rosario Alonso García
(Canada) Jean Simoneau and Marie-Josée Charest
(Barbados) Keith A. Simmonds
(Morocco) ‘Aziza Rahmouni and Ahmad Chkoubi
(Tunisia) Monia Boulila and Hayat Ar-Rayes
(Jordan)  ‘Ali Zhahir An-Nu’aymi
(Egypt) Tareq Farraj, Ahmad Kamal Zaki  and Sabah Husni
(Palestine) Rif’at Zaytoun and Tal’at Chu’aybat
(Iraq) Marwan Yassin Ad-Dulaymi
     (Iraq-Sweden) Sa’d Al-‘Amidi
(Algeria) Muhammad ‘Ali Sa’id
and the twin brothers Al-Bachiq Muhammad Balghith and Yussuf Al-Baz Balghith

(France) Olivier Bidchiren (poet and short-story writer)
    (France-Algeria) Tayeb Belmihoub (author and actor)
     (France-Lebanon) Issal Saleh (poet)
(France) the couple Simone Gabriel and Martin Gabriel (poets and artists)
(Spain) Lourdes Aso Torralba (writer)
(Morocco) ‘Abdelmajid Benjelloun (writer and painter)
(Morocco) ‘Abdelouahid Bennani (writer and poet)
(Morocco) Mohamed Sibari (poet and novelist)
(Libya) Ahmad Yussuf ‘Aqila (writer)
(Romania) Mihai-Athanasie Petrescu (writer)
(Romania) Cleopatra Lorintiu (poetess and novelist)
(Romania) Constantin Severin (poet and visual artist)