Sunday Submissions: NEA Translation Fellowships
Proposed projects — which can be supported with $12,500 or $25,000 grants — “should be of interest for its literary excellence and value.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
On Telling ‘A Story the World Has a Hard Time Hearing’
“These are giants in our part of the world,” Abulhawa said. “But here they’re unknown.”
Friday Finds: ‘Another Description of the Locust’
Thigh of a camel, shank of an ostrich,
a vulture’s paw and the breast of a biting lion.
12 Participants of Arabic ‘Short Stories Masterclass’ to Read in Frankfurt
Finalists from the previous workshops in Cairo, Beirut, and Jericho were invited to apply for this year’s Frankfurt workshop, which will be led by Palestinian novelist and short-story writer Adania Shibli and Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany. Select short stories will be published bilingually on the adda literary website.
Free Online Arabic-poetry Translation Workshop
The magazine Modern Poetry in Translation has launched an online translation workshop focused on Adil Latefi’s poem “Debate.”
12 Reads: Looking for the Great Arabic Cat Story
We are in the process of hunting down Arabic cat stories, cat tales, cat anecdotes, cat poetry, The Great Cairo Cat Novel, and other feline literary productions in Arabic.
Next Month: ‘Politics Through the Looking Glass’
“Has the personal lived experience become the only source for forging new meaning in the collapse of patriarchy?”
Sunday Submissions: Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation
The prize is open for submissions until January 31, 2020.
Ibtisam Azem’s ‘The Book of Disappearance’
Why have the Palestinians disappeared once again?