Arabic Translation Challenge: ‘You’ve Aged Like a Cat!’
“I saw everyone getting lovelier, day by day, / and you, becoming less so! / Like a cat that fetches a high price in its youth, / and which, when it ages, goes for cheap.”
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Lock-in Summer of Lit: Ghareeb Iskander’s ‘A Letter to Adil’
“What can I do?/ Except stay deadly silent/ In this desert/ which dwells in a dark room.”
Sunday Submissions: Speculative Fiction in Translation
“We value expanding our perceptions, whether through reading narratives or poems from under-represented groups, or through you sharing insight. We are open to unusual yet readable styles, inventive structures and narratives, and works that address political issues in complex and nuanced ways, resisting oversimplification.”
‘No Way But The Way’
“It’s heart-warming to see Sargon’s voice transmogrify in so many ways and across four languages.”
Netflix and the Screen Adaptation of ‘Abu Omar al-Masri’
The screen adaptation of Ezzedine Choukri Fishere’s Abu Omar al-Masri — translated to English by Jonathan Wright and retitled as The Egyptian Assassin — is now available on Netflix.
Friday Finds: Excerpts from a New ‘Penguin Classic’ Edition of Youssef Idris’s ‘Cheapest Nights’
This collection, of Youssef Idris’s best-known stories, was originally released as part of Heinemann’s classic “African Writers Series,” which launched in 1957.
5 Questions: On the Hybrid and Collective Writing Competition
“By that we mean the ethos of hybridization, one that encourages richness in movement, in a linguistic or cultural sense, one that embraces an openness of mind that allows you to experience the same thing from different angles.”
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.
Youssouf Amine Elalamy Wins 2020 Prix Orange du Livre
The prize went to Moroccan writer Youssouf Amine Elalamy for his novel C’est beau, la guerre: