Friday Finds: Poet Golan Haji in Four Languages
You thinned your pain. / Tu as poli ta douleur. / Du hast deinen Schmerz verschmälert.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Sudanese Author Omayma Abdullah on the Writer’s Heart
“No writer can take the possession of his or her heart for granted; it seems be a writer’s fate that their heart is always at in the hands of others, and others’ hearts clustering around them.”
ArabLit Holiday Gift Guide 2019
For every literature-lover, food-eater, cat-lover, and beverage-drinker on your gift list.
In Love and Word Ensnared
Mourns a friend and blames time
that struck her down with what struck me
The Story of 50 Years of Algerian Crime Fiction in 60+ Books
From state crimes and political murders to family feuds and petty crime, with investigations conducted by professionals or the uninitiated, Algerian crime writers have produced some the most entertaining stories I have read — and are certainly the most vibrant in the Algerian literary corpus.
Sunday Submissions: Copper Canyon Accepting Translated Poetry Manuscripts
Submissions close December 1, 2019.
Launch Event Tomorrow: Read an Excerpt of Donia Kamal’s ‘Random Arrangements’
“I hate that nobody is ever accountable for anything, even if you complain repeatedly and send emails that nobody answers, and I hate emails in the first place, and I also hate the fact that most of my colleagues here are surrendering to the editorial agenda which they actually see as valid and balanced while it makes me cry every day in the bathroom.”
Friday Finds: Norbert Hirschhorn’s ‘Stephen Spender’-commended Translation
I am the Lord of the room.
My crown is morning dust,
the floor my castle.
On Taha Hussein Day: 5 in Translation
Although Hussein’s works continue to be read and loved forty-odd years after his death, only a small corner of his broad oeuvre has been translated to English.