Sunday Submissions: ‘Calling All Female Arab Writers’
The deadline is August 15, 2020.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
‘Every Father Kills his Son’
“A life of pain / For that, dad, thanks! /No son had I / To say, Life stanks!” – Results from our first challenge.
Arabic Publishing and the Covid-19 Pandemic
“This is the ultimate test for ebooks and audiobooks.”
Friday Finds: A New WWB Series, ‘Close-Up: An Experiment in Reviewing Translation’
“You cannot have people who regularly review American literature dictate the worth of a new work in translation. They do not have the range to deal with such works, simply because their reviews are often based on their local literary economies.”
Available Now: A Translation of Tayeb Salih’s ‘Mansi, A Rare Man in His Own Way’
Salih went on to publish four novels as well as many other books, including his popular منسي إنسان نادر على طريقته (Mansi: A Rare Man in His Own Way), published in 2004, five years before the author’s death.
5 International & Arabic Literary Events Going Online in 2020
Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino EXTRA promises to be “the first International Book Fair to go live at home.”
Weekly Arabic Translation Challenge: The Crime of al-Ma’arri’s Father
هذا جَنَاهُ أبي عليَّ وَمَا جَنَيتُ عَلَى أَحَدِ
Lock-in Limited Release: Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Man in the Picture’
Sheikhun Muharram disappeared.
Sunday Submissions: Open Letter Books
“Open Letter is a literary press that publishes ten books annually—mostly novels, but also collections of short stories, poetry, and literary essays.”