Forthcoming: Translation of Memoir by ‘Aladdin’-teller Hanna Diyab
An English translation of Hanna Diyab’s travel-memoir, by Elias Muhanna and Johannes Stephan, is expected to come out in 2020 from the Library of Arabic Literature.
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Sunday Submissions: 2019 Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation
The judges of the 2019 competition are Mary Jean Chan, Margaret Jill Costa, and Olivia McCannon.
Recommended: 5 Omani Writers from Man Booker International Winner Jokha al-Harthi
None of the five Omani writers al-Harthi mentioned has a book translated into English.
Friday Finds: Huda Hamed’s ‘Things Are Not in Their Place’
Her ‘Things Are Not in Their Place’ (2009) won both the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity and Best Omani Publication of 2009.
The ‘1001 Nights’ Outclassed: The 10th-century Stories of Tanūkhī
“I think Tanūkhī’s stories outclass the Nightsin every way, and unlike Shahrazad, he doesn’t go on and on. His plots are brisk and varied, even though in Deliverance Follows Adversity all the stories are about someone, usually someone just like you or me, getting into some sort of tight spot in one of their less bright moments, and coming out gratefully on the other side[.]”
Mansoura Ez Eldin: If Criticism’s Integrity Is Lost, It ‘Does More Harm Than Good’
“In an ideal world, literary criticism is very important, no less important than creative writing.”
Jokha al-Harthi and Marilyn Booth Win 2019 Man Booker International for ‘Celestial Bodies’
“A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over.”
Bulaq Episode 32: Work-lit Balance
What are you willing (and not willing) to do for free?
12 (Auto)biographical Narratives by Algerian Women
“A common and conspicuous theme across the suggested texts below is that they are either set within or draw heavily from the national struggle against French colonial rule and its lingering aftermath in Algeria.”