Sunday Submissions: ‘The Common’ Seeks Stories from the Arabian Gulf
The Common’s summer and fall submissions call — open through the end of November — asks for stories, poems, and nonfiction set in, around, and through the Gulf.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Online Now: 17 New Arabic Stories from Emerging Authors
“The stories center creation, missed opportunities, romance and memory, stuck-ness and entrapment, language and identity, patriarchies and colonialisms.”
Friday Finds: The Dialects of Oil & Rain
At the end of last month, three writers — Mona Kareem, Deepak Unnikrishnan, and Krupa Ge — talked about translation, transience, the Gulf, belonging, and more.
Two Books Translated from Arabic Make 2020 NTA Prose Longlist
Yesterday, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the longlists for the 2020 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose. Two works translated from Arabic — a novel and a collection of interlinked short stories — made the twelve-book longlist for prose.
Shadow Heroes: Arabic Translation (and More) in the Classroom
“Translation is not a field of instant (or even delayed) validation. Mostly we do the work and leave it in the proverbial drawer for months or years, or we send it out into the world and hear nothing (or just murmurs) back. So classroom work offers a nice change.”
WorldKidLit Month: 10 Translations from Arabic for Young Readers
A few years ago, it was hard to find any contemporary children’s literature translated to English from Arabic. Now, several new titles are being published each year. Here, a list of ten children’s books translated from Arabic for young readers.
2020 Arab American Book Awards Include Award’s First-ever Prize for Graphic Memoir
“This is the only award that could possibly matter to me, as anyone who has read ‘When We Were Arabs’ is well aware.”
2020 Women in Translation Month: A Look Back
For those who might have missed some of our 2020 Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) coverage, a look back.
Vénus Khoury-Ghata: ‘The Woman Who Wasn’t in the Photo’
“I am very disciplined. I wake up early every morning and begin work on my own novels and poems. Then I take care of my cats and others’ work.”