If You’re in Cairo: The Blog as (Cross-cultural) Literary Salon
While, yes, I will talk about this blog — and specifically about what I’ve learned about the readers and “business” of Arabic literary translation — I also have been talking to others who edit literary translation blogs.
Katy Derbyshire (award-winning translator and editor of “love german books“) reports a very similar experience to mine. Paper Republic (Chinese literature & translation) has faced similar issues, but written toward and around them much differently. Thanks to Michael Orthofer over at The Literary Saloon for helping me dig up more to compare & contrast.
Photo from the 2009 Cairo Book Fair. And yes, I have a first name. Apparently the marketing department insisted upon it.
March 12, 2012 @ 7:12 am
Best wishes on your lecture. Wish I could be there for it!
March 12, 2012 @ 3:00 pm
I really hope that Carina and I can make it to this, it sounds fantastic! Good luck with it, I hope you post about it as well.
March 12, 2012 @ 4:21 pm
Mona Elnamoury has promised that she’ll write about it for ArabLit…I think she’s also supposed to take some of my trademark awful, red-eye photos, too!
March 12, 2012 @ 5:05 pm
Love it! Wish I could go! But of course I can’t, because I’m not in Cairo. But I still read your blog. WHICH IS WHY YOUR BLOG IS A CROSS-CULTURAL LITERARY SALON. 🙂
March 12, 2012 @ 5:17 pm
Now, if I repeat that at the event, do I have to shout to replicate your all caps? 🙂
March 13, 2012 @ 10:43 am
Ah. Pity I’m not in Egypt yet.
March 15, 2012 @ 1:03 am
Good to see blogging consolidating its authority and relevance in academia in the Arab world.
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