Sunday Submissions: Brow Books
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Review: ‘Pay No Heed to the Rockets’
“In just a little over 200 pages, Di Cintio introduces us to dozens of writers, each living a different creative life in cities ranging from Ramallah to Haifa to Gaza to Jerusalem.”
4 ‘PEN Translates’ Awards Go To Arabic Titles
Also for the first time this year, the majority of winning titles are by women. These include books by Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun and Syrian Dima Wannous.
Fitzcarraldo Editions Picks Up Its First Arabic Novel
Fitzcarraldo editor Jacques Testard called the novel “an intricately layered and devastating work of fiction.”
4th of July: Americans in Arabic Literature
“Most of us were surprised, but we later realized that the presidential palace was just across the river. Now the Americans have occupied it and surrounded it with walls and checkpoints; our new rulers can live far away from us.”
Bulaq 17: A Talk with Karl ReMarks
ReMarks’ new book, “And then God Created the Middle East and Said ‘Let There Be Breaking News’” is forthcoming July 9.
Love in a Time of Artificial Wombs
“Moussa Ould Ibno originally wrote Al-hubb Al-mustaheel as L’amour impossible and, along with another one of his novels, he re-wrote the story in Arabic a few years later.”
Sunday Submissions: PEN/Heim Translation Grants
“The Fund seeks to encourage translators to undertake projects they might not otherwise have had the means to attempt.”
Qarmout, Al-Rawi Up for Edinburgh ‘First Book’ Award
The award is fan-selected, and, according to organizers, “Everyone who casts a vote is entered into a prize draw to win all the titles in the award.”