“I started to record it so as not to forget. Not only for me but for anyone who is innocent and has been imprisoned under false pretenses. Just to remember what can happen.”
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Stella Gaitano’s ‘Eddo’s Souls,’ ‘Book of Ramallah’ Win PEN Translates Awards
For the first time, one of the “PEN Translates” awards will go to a South Sudanese novel.
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New Lit: Excerpt of Stella Gaitano’s ‘The Souls of Eddo’
This first Monday of Women in Translation Month, Sawad Hussain and Stella Gaitano share this excerpt from her novel The Souls of Eddo, winner of a PEN Translates Prize
Read more9 Short Stories by Sudanese and South Sudanese Women, in Translation
Nine vibrant, world-stitching (and un-stitching) short stories by Sudanese and South Sudanese women in English translation.
Read more‘Eddo’s Souls’: A Novel of Motherhood and Fragmentation in Sudan and South Sudan
“The novel begins across a rural context, in a small impoverished village full of mystery, rituals, and superstition, and it ends in a jam-packed city with all its complications.”
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Special for #WiTMonth: Stella Gaitano’s ‘Withered Flowers’
Anyone who becomes a Patreon subscriber to ALQ during the month of August also gets a copy of Stella Gaitano’s limited-edition, almost-impossible-to-acquire Withered Flowers, in Arabic or English, while supplies last.
Read moreWomen in Translation Month: 10 New Books for 2022
“At some point you start to feel very patronised.”
Read more21 Shareable Short Stories by Women for the Shortest Day of the Year
As is our tradition for December 21, a list of 21 short stories for the shortest day of the year.
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Pub Day for ‘ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings’
Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.
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