Etel Adnan and Sarah Riggs Win Griffin Poetry Prize for ‘Time’
“What is astonishing here is how she manages to give weariness its own relentless energy.”
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Arabic Translation Challenge #2: ‘Do Not Scold Me!’
“Cure me rather with the cause of my ill…”
Lock-in Literature: Zakaria Tamer’s ‘The Flower’
“There was a skinny roughened hand buried in the dirt. It yearned for sun and rain, for the blue sky and the wind, and for years it crept slowly upward.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Calling All Female Arab Writers’
The deadline is August 15, 2020.
‘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.”