Books by Hassan Blasim, Adania Shibli Win PEN Translates Prizes
“Books are selected for PEN Translates awards on the basis of outstanding literary quality, strength of the publishing project, and contribution to literary diversity in the UK.”
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Palestine Book Awards Announce 2019 Shortlist
The twin aims of the award are to honor and celebrates books in English about Palestine and to “encourage authors and publishers to produce more books on Palestine.”
Open Access Release of Arabic Corpus: 1.5 Billion Words
Which Arabic texts are they? According to the KITAB FAQ, they focus “on the origins of the written Arabic tradition, in the eighth century, up to roughly the fifteenth century, but aim to include as many texts as possible, so you can also find texts written after 1500.”
In Celebration of Amjad Nasser, a Poet Who ‘Mourns Himself While Still Alive’
This week, the literary journal “Akhbar al-Adab” dedicated an issue to Nasser and his work, which features essays by Ghassan Zaqtan, Tarek al-Tayeb, Qassim Haddad, Hoda Barakat, and others.
‘Book of Cairo’: Stories From Post-2013 Egypt
“The main threads that, in my opinion, run through all these stories are confusion, distrust of the people and reality around you, and the fragility of truth.”
Sunday Submissions: Words Without Borders Launches ‘Poems in Translation’ Contest
“Submissions will be accepted from May 28, 2019, through midnight June 28, 2019.”
Vote: Maarouf’s ‘Jokes for the Gunmen’ Up for First Book Award
You can cast your vote on the festival’s website.
Friday Finds: 13 Poems by Mona Kareem
“Kareem creates captivating and visual miniatures of day-to-day situations.”
MULOSIGE Project to Make ‘London Libraries More Multilingual’
The project, organizers write, not only has the aim of celebrating multilingualism, but also of increasing “Londoners’ knowledge of and accessibility to literatures from the Global South, and in languages other than English.”