Sunday Submissions: ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
Applications will be accepted through November 30, 2020.
mlynxqualey
About mlynxqualey
Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Bulaq 58, ‘The Pillar of Salt,’ & Book-club Poll
Bulaq Episode 58 centers on Albert Memmi’s The Pillar of Salt.
Egyptian Poet Emad Abu Saleh Wins Sargon Boulus Award
The 2020 Sargon Boulus Award — this year in its third edition — went yesterday to Egyptian poet Emad Abu Saleh.
Friday Finds: Emma Ramadan on Translating Meryem Alaoui’s ‘Straight From the Horse’s Mouth’
The Asymptote Book Club’s September 2020 selection was Emma Ramadan’s translation of Meryem Alaoui’s Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: As part of the book-club materials, Asymptote editor Allison Braden talked […]
R. B. Smith, Mai Lootah Win AATA Translation Awards
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic Translation has announced the two winners of their 2020 translation award.
32 Books Selected for Inaugural ‘Arab Voices’ Launched at Frankfurt
The Arab Voices project was (virtually) launched last week at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with a video presentation by project head Sherif Bakr and jury members Abier Megahed and R. Neil Hewison.
Hay Festival ‘Will Not Return to Abu Dhabi’ While Minister Accused of Sexual Assault ‘Remains in Position’
Hay Festival, which ran the first-ever Hay Festival Abu Dhabi this year, has stated that the literary festival will not return to Abu Dhabi while the minister accused of assault […]
Poetry by Abdel Wahab Yousif in Four Languages
Tamil translator Gouthama Siddarthan has curated a small selection of poems by Abdel Wahab Yousif, a young Sudanese poet who drowned, in August, in the Mediterranean, in four languages: According […]
Sunday Submissions: ‘Trinity Journal of Literary Translation’
Submissions are now open for “Ireland’s only literary journal dedicated to literary translation.”