With 2160 participants in competition, from sixty four countries, writing in forty four languages and dialects: Albanian, Arabic (literary and several spoken dialects), Aromanian, Azeri, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Macedonian, Malaysian, Montenegrin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Shona (Bantu), Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalo, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and Uzbek, the fifteenth picking season of Naji Naaman's literary prizes (2017) rewarded 52 new prizewinners:
Adel Fouda (Egypt/Oman)
Ahmad Al-Akhras (Jordan)
Ahmad Nabil Ahmad, Aya Yussuf Teama, Samah Hafez Al-Imam Al-Gamal,
Issam Sa’d Hamad Khairallah and Muhamad Najib Tawfiq Hassan Matar (Egypt)
Alisa Vela (Albania)
Andreas Polycarpou (Cyprus)
Angela-Melania Cristea (Romania/Macedonia)
Annamaria Ferramosca and Antonino Caponnetto (Italia)
Asror Allayarov and Ikromkhon Valikhonov (Uzbekistan)
Cheikh Ahmad Mahmoud Nouh (Mauritania)
Cornelia Păun Heinzel, Klaudia Muntean and Oana Calusa (Romania)
Dimitris P. Kraniotis (Greece)
Hanane Ettouji, Mohamed El-Jay and Mourad Elkhatibi (Morocco)
Hiba Albeity (Saudi Arabia/U.K.)
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis (India/U.S.A.)
Ibrahim Adnan Yassine and Muhamad Iqbal Harb (Lebanon)
Intissar Hassan Mishrah (Yemen/Ukraine)
Kazem Al-Wahid Al-‘Anzi (Iraq/Sweden)
Muhamad Alasedy (Iraq)
Nina Malinovski (Denmark)
Omama Mustafa Al-Lawati (Oman)
Salah Mansour Hammoud Al-Warafi (Yemen)
Syed Liaqath Peeran (India)
Tang Yi (China)