Moroccan Author Chourouq Nasri’s ‘Blue in Green’ Longlisted for 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize
All the longlisted stories will appear in the anthology “ID: New Short Fiction from Africa,” scheduled for release in July 2018.
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‘Apartment in Bab El Louk’: Collaborative Alienation
These short sentences don′t appear on the page as a block. Instead, they′re arranged in a cat-shaped poem, sneaking around after the reader. Here as elsewhere, the book doesn′t focus on plot, but on atmosphere. And what we learn about Bab El Louk is always partial, distant, askance.
Friday Finds: Words Without Borders Collects Writing by Tunisian Women
“I / am stolen splendor on a darkened street”
‘Maps of Yunus’ Launches Tomorrow in Beirut; Read an Excerpt in Translation
He went out to get something to eat and was struck that the streets were empty and the cars in their places, cold and lifeless. The shop was closed and the traffic lights blinked on and off, changing their colors, in a conversation with no one.
AmazonCrossing Reports Uptick in Submissions from Arabic
“Specifically, Arabic is a language that’s somewhat unreachable from the community that we have built so far and we’ve received a number of extremely interesting Arabic submissions since localizing into the Arbaic language. We’re reviewing those now.”
17 Literary Gifts for 2017: From Djinn Tales to Humor to Kid Lit to Music
Seventeen recommended literary gifts for everyone on your list, ages 5 – 105.
Shahla Ujayli Wins 2017 Al Multaqa Prize With Short-story Collection ‘Bed of the King’s Daughter’
“In addition to the $20,000 prize, there is also a fund to support translation of the winning collection into English, and $5,000 for each of the shortlisted authors.”
Marcel Kurpershoek on Translating 18th-century Nabati Poetry That Still ‘Smells Like Fresh Bread’
“[I]t’s also the only source we have for what people thought in that part of the world before the Wahhabi reform movement. We have no other sources.”
Sunday Submissions: Apply for a PEN Translates Grant Before December 8
According to organizers, “the main criteria for assessment are: literary quality, strength and innovation of the publishing project, and contribution to literary diversity in the UK.”