Short Fiction: ‘Orchestra,’ from Hisham Bustani’s ‘The Monotonous Chaos of Existence’
“She was seated at the black piano. The music had evaporated from her head, and only crooked melodies stumbled from her fingers.”
Read moreSunday Submissions: 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing
The 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is open for submissions by publishers until January.
Read moreLit & Found: David Larsen on Translation ‘As a Constraint-based Form of Writing’
“As part of a series on poetry and translation for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books blog, scholar and translator of pre-modern Arabic literature David Larsen delves into the conjunction that joins translation with poetry, the and between them.”
Read moreSarah Enany Wins 2021 Banipal Translation Prize for ‘The Girl with Braided Hair’
“A unanimous choice for the excellence and readability
of both its original and translated versions.”
Poetry in Translation: Fadi Azzam’s ‘This Is Damascus, You Sons of Bitches’
“She has enough patience to wait for a climax with the force an earthquake, and enough shoes and slippers hanging in al-Hamidiyah market to whack fifty deserving dictators.”
Read morePoetry Translation Projects from Arabic, Kurdish Win 2022 NEA Fellowships
Translators working from Arabic and Kurdish were among the two dozen working on a wide range of literary projects selected for 2022 National Endowment for the Arts (US) Literary Translation Fellowships.
Read moreHow (and Why) to Subscribe to a Serialized ‘Kafka in Tangier’ Translation, Free
“As much as I adore Aaliya, I still harbor aspirations of being a necessary translator – or, more modestly and accurately, a translator who is read.”
Read moreShort Fiction: Zuher Karim’s ‘The Awakening of Abdulmonam’
“This is a confusing experience, not intended to be comical in any way, shape, or form.”
Read more2022 Sawiris Prizes Presented in 10 Categories
“Sixteen artists and authors were honored at the ceremony, held at the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. This was the first year the Sawiris Award offered a prize for books for young readers.”
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