The United States’ National Endowment for the Arts announced that they had awarded 16 grants, worth $250,000, for translation projects, including a $25,000 grant for Mohammed A. Albakry to translate Tahrir Plays and Performance Texts from the Egyptian Revolution.
This tweet just came across from Hisham Matar (@hishamjmatar), who clearly should have warned us earlier.
In the fourth and final part of the series on “the Arabic novel in the West,” Palestinian novelist Raba’i Madhoun asked Palestinian-British writer Selma Dabbagh, author of Out of It, for her views.
Translator-novelist Elliott Colla has suggested that there are a few core reasons why American readers pick up Arabic literature (in translation).
Last week, al-Sharq al-Awsat ran a three-part interview by Raba’i Madhoun — one part with England-based Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, one with France-based Moroccan critic and short-story writer Mohammed El-Mezdioui and one with American novelist and translator Elliott Colla.
When I opened up Raba’i Madhoun’s The Lady from Tel Aviv, trans. Elliott Colla, I had a hard time believing it was السيدة من تل أبيب.
The 2013-2014 John Dryden Translation Competition is now open for entries, which calls for unpublished literary translations from any language into English.
At this year’s Shubbak Festival, Raba’i Madhoun (@rmadhoun) was on hand to launch the translation of his novel The Lady from Tel Aviv. Sarah Irving was there.
Comma Press — publisher of Hassan Blasim’s Madman of Freedom Square and The Iraqi Christ, both trans. Jonathan Wright — is setting up a permanent Arabic translation imprint and they need your help.
