This year's "literature" award went to Iman Mersal for her 2019 work of creative nonfiction Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat).
New Residency to Foster Translations from Arabic
"This residency is open to literary translators who translate from Arabic into any official language of the European Union. Eligible candidates must have already translated at least two published works of fiction."
New from Hoopoe Fiction, An Excerpt of ‘My First & Only Love’
"Spies were everywhere."
The Three Tunisian Titles Shortlisted for EU Prize for Literature
Last week, organizers announced the 55 books from 14 participating countries nominated for the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL).
From the Archives: Belal Fadl’s ‘Into the Tunnel’
"No one expected things to go this way."
Samira Negrouche’s ‘The Olive Trees’ Jazz’ Shortlisted for Derek Walcott Prize
The $1000 prize is offered annually "for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world."
Friday Finds: ‘Who Are You Without People?’
"Don’t say such foolish things about people."
From the Archives: How Mahmoud Darwish Inspired a Poetry Movement in Assam, India
"The off-LBF podcast below explores the Miyah poetry movement that was sparked in April 2016 when poet Hafiz Ahmed composed 'Write Down I Am a Miyah,' inspired in part by Mahmoud Darwish’s 'ID Card,' and shared it on social media."
From the Archives: Another Road for Syrian Poetry
"I have no need of a wall clock / or a pocket diary: / I know the times of my screams"
On Translating the Linguistic Diversity of ‘Hot Maroc’
"It is the research and the work that the reader may not see in the final translation that will determine the quality of that translation."
Monday Poetry: ‘In the Name of God’
"You, well of thirst,/ Black treasure in the wolf's mouth,/ Let your lamp, that speaks miracles, light the name of Iraq."
Friday Finds: Abdelfattah Kilito’s ‘Why Read the Classics?’
"Isn’t our notion of the classic influenced by the other? Doesn’t the standing of Arabic literature rely upon foreign literature?"
