The shortlist for this year’s Popescu Prize was announced earlier this week. The prize shortlist, which honors poetry in translation (from European languages) includes Ramsey Nasr’s Heavenly Life, translated by […]
Becka Mara McKay teaches translation and creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and an MFA in literary translation […]
I’m still quite doubtful about this alleged flood of awards to Arab authors, but the flood of literary events—at least outside northern North America—continues. The Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (September 7-17) […]
I am still working on a line-by-line comparison of the two English translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence, which is really a bit more dizzying than you’d […]
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing just announced that they’ve signed up حيث لا تسقط الأمطار (Where the Rain Doesn’t Fall – Dar Al Adab 2010), the first novel by the Jordanian […]
It’s really true this time. Truly. Initially scheduled for February 1, the Literature Across Frontiers’ (LAF) presentation in the “Making Literature Travel” series, on translation from Arabic into English, will […]
A Gathering of the Tribes magazine, an art and literature publication devoted to many-cultural and international work, is looking for Arabic poetry (in English) for a special issue in Spring […]
Diana Abu-Jaber is most recently the author of Birds of Paradise, which is out this month, as well as of the award-winning memoir The Language of Baklava and the best-selling novel Origin and Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book Award.
In the past seven months, Arab authors have been asked to speak for their nations. Book festival-goers, journalists, and fans have asked them to explain not just their craft, but the past, present, and the future of our region.
