Events coming up in the next week include a Zoom book discussion of Hassan Blasim’s God99, in translation by Jonathan Wright; Michael Cooperson’s talk about “Englishing al-Hariri”; and, next Saturday, “An Exploration of Experimental Translation” Workshop.
“Around a century later, in Cairo, during the obscenity trial of my novel Using Life, the assistant attorney for the prosecution challenged my defense attorney and the respected literary figures we had called as witnesses to read a section of my novel out loud.”
Poet and translator Mona Kareem has won a $12,500 NEA award to support her translation of poetry by Iraqi poet Ra’ad Abdulqadir.
Prominent Lebanese publisher, filmmaker, researcher, organizer, and commentator Lokman Slim was found dead Thursday morning. He was 59.
“My defenses crumbled, and despite an old pledge never to cry over Iraq, when I finished translating her emotional farewell to Baghdad, tears were rolling down my face.”
Although, one must note, “Take it out when maggoty” is a delightful sentence.
The winning book will be announced on Thursday, March 25, 2021; the winning poet and translator will share a £3,000 prize.
“It was the only book that Ahmed Bouanani wanted to publish, but he died believing that the manuscript had been destroyed when his house burned down.”
“I was curious to know who the man was.”
