Listen: 4 Shortlisted for 2018 ArabLit Story Prize
The four shortlisted stories, read by author or translator.
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Sunday Submissions: NEA Literary Translation Fellowships
These grants are to support “projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English.” The grants range in size from $12,500 to $25,000.
Reading ‘Antarah in the 21st Century
“I have tried to translate this at least 10 times before this particular version. I did one of these in the style of Beowulf, I did one of these in a sort of minimalist Ted Hughes…”
Friday Finds: ‘The Earth Opens and Welcomes You,’ by Abdellatif Laâbi
“The earth opens / and welcomes you / Why these cries, these tears / these prayers. / What have they / lost / What are they looking for / those who disturb/ Your new-found peace?”
Najwa Binshatwan: It’s Time for Libyan Writers to Prove Themselves
“Often, readers tell me I should write about one subject or another, and I don’t like this sort of relationship, where readers approach the writer as though they’re a machine or a mythical creature.”
Six Classical Libraries: Challenges in Editing, Translation, and Beyond
“We do insist on faithfulness…but we also insist, more and more, on a kind of English that speaks to a broad audience.”
Kuwait Mourns Loss of Novelist Ismail Fahd Ismail, 78
The great novelist Ismail Fahd Ismail (1940-2018) died Tuesday. He was 78.
Mansoura Ez-Eldin: ‘The Limbo of Sounds’
“This is the way my memory works; it provides me with a stream of scented, flavored, visual memories. For some mysterious reason, it chooses to eliminate sounds and voices, especially when it comes to foreign cities. I tend to totally forget the sounds of these cities and remember only silent streets, squares, gardens, and markets.”
‘Black’: A Short Memoir by Hoda Salem
“This, too, felt like an insult, despite the fact that I have never identified as either Sudanese or Egyptian.”